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Hiroshima Quotes by Wilfred Burchett
- The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.
- Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.
- 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 were…
- Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.
- Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat…
- When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives…
- My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.
More Hiroshima Quotes
- 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
- 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
- ...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it… — Jeanette Winterson
- 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
- During my span of life science has become a matter of public concern and the l'art pour l'art standpoint of my youth… — Max Born
- 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
- The ginkgo tree is from the era of dinosaurs, but while the dinosaur has been extinguished, the modern ginkgo has not changed.… — Koji Nakanishi
- In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having… — Tadatoshi Akiba
- 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
- 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
- Wars between states and people seem to have existed under all historical systems for as long as we have some recorded evidence.… — Immanuel Wallerstein
- I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima - and you know, is the price worth it? — Lesley Stahl