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Now Christianity sounded good at first to the naive convert. Love, peace and charity - what's wrong with that? I'll tell you… — William S. Burroughs 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
“In Nevada, at Frenchman’s Flat, a bright flash and ugly mushroom cloud had signified a gigantic change in the tactical battlefield—a change… — T.R. Fehrenbach Copy Share Image
I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
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“Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo… — Ronald Schaffer Copy Share Image
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We dropped two bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and the name of the plane that delivered the weapons was the Enola Gay.… — Carlos Mencia Copy Share Image
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The use of force is easy to rationalize in terms of basic economics. 'We should make them PAY for what they've done!'… — Bryan Caplan Copy Share Image
Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
It is people who are violent, rather than "religions"; and since we secularised our politics we have had two major world wars,… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
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I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of… — R. J. Hollingdale Copy Share Image
The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed.… — Koji Nakanishi Copy Share Image
Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just… — Max von Sydow Copy Share Image
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Since Hiroshima and the Holocaust, science no longer holds its pristine place as the highest moral authority. Instead, that role is taken… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the… — Paul Tibbets Copy Share Image
When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left… — Joseph Rotblat Copy Share Image
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