Body Quote by John Hersey

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some…

— John Hersey

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some…

— John Hersey

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…

— Wilfred Burchett

Many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, malaise, and fever, which lasted several days. Doctors could not…

— John Hersey

The atomic bomb provoked a specific accident.

— Paul Virilio

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

The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough…

— John Hersey

The atom bomb fueled the entire world that came after it. It showed that indiscriminate killing and indiscriminate homicide on a mass level was…

— Bob Dylan

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert.…

— Winston Churchill

Nobody could tell us or really had a very good idea, if there were a massive release of radiation, what kind of medical treatment…

— William Scranton

Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate…

— Dennis Overbye

“The disaster at the Chernobyl plant, along with the war in Afghanistan and the cruise-missile question, is generally seen today as the start of…

— Geert Mak