Airplane Quote by Harry S. Truman

Seven decades after it was struck by an atom bomb, Hiroshima is a city of peace and hope.

— Fumio Kishida

Reports in Washington show that our reasoning was just like that of your physicists. With all this information available, at least to privileged persons,…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Check your environment and be sure that it is supportive. Some environments do not support progress. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not fertile lands for…

— Israelmore Ayivor

The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the…

— Kofi Annan

Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey's…

— Paul Nitze

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and…

— Daisaku Ikeda

“Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that…

— Ronald Schaffer

“Hiroshima and Nagasaki were atomized at a time when the Japanese were suing desperately for peace. ”

— David Dellinger

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

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima…

— Daisaku Ikeda

I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, when…

— Isabel Allende