Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace. ” — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
Nuclear proliferation has never entirely been brought under control, and the arsenals of nuclear powers contain bombs far more powerful than those… — Margaret MacMillan 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
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
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the… — Albert Einstein 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
“Ever since the news of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had first reached him in California, Brecht had connected Galileo's caving-in before the Inquisition… — John Fuegi 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
“The only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breastfeeding their babies."--Tsutomu… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“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
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
“The descent to barbarism had begun with Rotterdam. It ended with Dresden and then with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever moral differences had… — David McReynolds Copy Share Image
I had been conscious of depression and so I voiced to (Sec. Of War Stimson) my grave misgivings, first on the basis… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is… — Paul Nitze Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“They thought the Allies would be desperate to “buy” their reactor research in the postwar era. Apparently they were not moved to… — Gregory Benford 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
“History's long rhythm of challenges and response, of solutions that breed new crises, is not to be interrupted. But the Cold War… — Martin Walker Copy Share Image
“Nations tend to see the other side's war atrocities as systemic and indicative of their culture and their own atrocities as justified… — James Bradley Copy Share Image
“Patriotism July 4 ALL “ISMS” RUN OUT IN the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. If patriots… — Frederick Buechner 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
The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We cannot and must not allow ourselves to have the message of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fade completely from our minds, and we… — Tadatoshi Akiba Copy Share Image
If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. — George Wald Copy Share Image
“Rome was not built in a day, but Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed in a day.” — Vijay Kedia Copy Share Image
Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
When you have to deal with a beast, you have to treat him as a beast. It is most regrettable but nevertheless… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“More than 80 percent of the uranium in the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs came from the heavily guarded Congo mine of Shinkolobwe. The” — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I happen to love America. I love this freedom and democracy. The fact is we are the ones who killed innocent people,… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg during the ten-day blitz as died in Coventry during the entire course of the… — Martin Caidin Copy Share Image
“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar… — Annie Jacobsen 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
“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
“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