What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about… — Issey Miyake Copy Share Image
We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal". — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The increase in the amount of heat in the oceans amounts to 17 x 10^22 Joules over the last 30 years. That… — Stefan Rahmstorf Copy Share Image
One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
The world came so close to self-destruction during my lifetime. I was serving in the American Army, in the Pacific, at the… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay,… — James Mahaffey Copy Share Image
“This private estate was far enough away from the explosion so that its bamboos, pines, laurel, and maples were still alive, and… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
“Contrary to Stimson’s highly influential but totally misleading account in Harper’s in February 1947, “The Decision to Use the Atom Bomb”—written for… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
Because my parents were American missionaries who sent me to public schools in rural Japan, I had to confront Hiroshima as a… — Linda Hoaglund Copy Share Image
“It was as easy as breathing to go and have tea near the place where Jane Austen had so wittily scribbled and… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“As Japan recovered from the post-war depression, okonomiyaki became the cornerstone of Hiroshima's nascent restaurant culture. And with new variables- noodles, protein,… — Matt Goulding Copy Share Image
I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“Check your environment and be sure that it is supportive. Some environments do not support progress. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The human murder by poverty in Latin America is secret: every year, without making a sound, three Hiroshima bombs explode over communities… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our… — William D. Leahy Copy Share Image
The 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, has not so far provoked the kind of anguished… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at… — Arnon Goldfinger Copy Share Image
Nuclear weapons are inherently threatening to all of civilization. If that had been a nuclear weapon at the World Trade Center, even… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
What helps me is watching other people negotiate loss. I think about how we dropped a bomb on people in Hiroshima and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have a strange illusion quite often. I think I've become deaf. I have to make a little noise to prove I'm… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb… — John Hersey Copy Share Image
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