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
“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
“We are the centuries... We have your eoliths and your mesoliths and your neoliths. We have your Babylons and your Pompeiis, your… — Walter M. Miller Jr 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
“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
“Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.” — Vijay Kedia Copy Share Image
As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force… — Martin Van Creveld 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
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
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
I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one… — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
The people of Hiroshima went to work at once to restore human society in the aftermath of the great atomic flood. They… — Kenzaburo Oe 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
I'm not sure if there is a cultural loss of innocence specifically associated with the seventies. The oil crisis? The Watergate scandal?… — Quentin S. Crisp 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
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
“If the radiance of a thousand suns Were to burst at once into the sky That would be like the splendour of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
The Atomic Age was born in secrecy, and for two decades after Hiroshima, the high priests of the cult of the atom… — Stewart Udall Copy Share Image
“35. Not every environment accepts the progress you want to put across. Take a second look at what you dream about, be… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of… — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“She remembers that American airplanes had dropped handbills a few days before the bombing warning Hiroshima residents to evacuate because “something terrible”… — Max McCoy Copy Share Image
I was in Hiroshima with my assistant, and I said to him, 'You know, I've done close to a thousand shows with… — Trevor Rabin Copy Share Image
Public support for change is vital, and with that in mind I encourage political leaders and young people from around the world… — Fumio Kishida Copy Share Image
“Not every environment accepts the dream shaping progress you want to put across. Take a second look at what you dream about,… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
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
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
In the first weeks after Hiroshima, extravagant statements by President Truman and other official spokesmen for the U.S. government transformed the inception… — Stewart Udall 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
“Hiroshima. So I’ve got to put something about it in my book. From the official Air Force standpoint, it’ll all be new.”… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
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
I've got a nice collection of paintings - a Basquiat, a black-and-white Warhol that's like a Rorschach test, and I commissioned Takashi… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball… — Masaharu Morimoto Copy Share Image
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