Age Quote by Edward Teller

The use of [the atomic bombs] at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The Japanese were already…

— William D. Leahy

There are young people today who feel that we shouldn't have developed the atomic bomb, that it was a mistake. Through no fault of…

— Glenn T. Seaborg

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It's not just the idea…

— Max von Sydow

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so…

— John Hersey

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

— Edward Bond

If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.

— Albert Einstein

We could not wipe ourselves out with a nuclear war. I do not want so sound too positive. It would be a catastrophe, but…

— Rusty Schweickart

“We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who experienced that…

— Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and…

— Pope John Paul II

It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against…

— William D. Leahy

I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Hiroshima is like a nakedly exposed wound inflicted on all mankind.”

— Kenzaburō Ōe