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
Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it… — Wilfred Burchett 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
I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the… — John Lewis Gaddis Copy Share Image
As the bomb fell over Hiroshima and exploded, we saw an entire city disappear. I wrote in my log the words: "My… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more… — Masuji Ibuse Copy Share Image
Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No… — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
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 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
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
When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of… — Malcolm X 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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
You can't do anything with anybody's body to make it dirty to me. Six people, eight people, one person - you can… — Lenny Bruce Copy Share Image
I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump: he'd probably declare in Hiroshima that he'd nuke half of Asia if it would help the West to retain its… — Andre Vltchek 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
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
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
If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a… — Chris Abani 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
...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work… — Laurence Yep 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
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
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 was a bombadier in WW 2. When you are up 30,000 feet you do not hear the screams or smell the… — Howard Zinn 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
I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I… — Sylvia Plath 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 were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons... The lethal possibilities of atomic…” quote by William D. Leahy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c62/william-d-leahy-72678_adopted_the-use-of-the-atomic-bombs-at-hiroshima_581704.jpg)
![“[Donald] Trump: he'd probably declare in Hiroshima that he'd nuke half of Asia if it would help the West to retain its control over the world. At least one would not harbor any false hopes.” quote by Andre Vltchek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/andre-vltchek-5249_asia_donald-trump-he-d-probably-declare-in-hi_900895.jpg)
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