Airplane Quote by Harry S. Truman

“The Japanese began the war from the air at Pearl Harbor. They have been repaid many-fold. And the end is not yet. With this…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I think the way to think about the impact of Hiroshima is to think about it as a sudden shift in the balance of…

— John Lewis Gaddis

“And, as the tiny lights drift into the blackness, the people pray that others around the world will remember Hiroshima and work for world…

— Laurence Yep

A bright light filled the plane. The first shock-wave hit us. We were eleven and a half miles slant range from the atomic explosion…

— Paul Tibbets

Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth…

— Arthur C. Clarke

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

— Kenzaburō Ōe

The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.

— Paul Virilio

“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

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but…

— George Orwell

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon…

— Henry L. Stimson

“Hiroshima. So I’ve got to put something about it in my book. From the official Air Force standpoint, it’ll all be new.” “Why would…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the…

— Johann Hari