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> [Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible to tell whether they were men or women, old or young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/hundreds-and-hundreds-of-the-dead-were-so-badly-burned-in-the/)

[Wilfred Burchett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/wilfred-burchett/)

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## More by Wilfred Burchett

> [Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/hiroshima-does-not-look-like-a-bombed-city-it-looks-as-if-a-monster/)

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> [My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/my-emotional-and-intellectual-response-to-hiroshima-was-that-the/)

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> [Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/ho-joined-the-french-socialist-party-the-first-vietnamese-to-be-a/)

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> [In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/in-this-first-testing-ground-of-the-atomic-bomb-i-have-seen-the-most/)

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> [Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/hiroshima-had-a-profound-effect-upon-me/)

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> [And just as there was something of every Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh so there is something of Ho Chi Minh in almost every…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/and-just-as-there-was-something-of-every-vietnamese-in-ho-chi-minh-so/)

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> [When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/when-you-arrive-in-hiroshima-you-can-look-around-and-for-25-and/)

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> [As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/as-in-all-his-subsequent-dealings-with-france-ho-chi-minh-s-demands/)

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> [Hundreds and hundreds of the dead were so badly burned in the terrific heat generated by the bomb that it was not even possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/hundreds-and-hundreds-of-the-dead-were-so-badly-burned-in-the/)

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> [Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/vietnamese-must-be-made-to-feel-that-they-are-racial-inferiors-with/)

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> [Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/of-thousands-of-others-nearer-the-centre-of-the-explosion-there-was/)

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> [Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/ho-or-nguyen-ai-quoc-thus-became-the-first-vietnamese-communist-and-a/)

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> [The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/the-police-chief-of-hiroshima-welcomed-me-eagerly-as-the-first-allied/)

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> [In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/in-hiroshima-thirty-days-after-the-first-atomic-bomb-destroyed-the/)

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> [It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wilfred-burchett/it-was-necessary-to-bluff-the-japanese-camp-commanders-with-whatever/)

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