About Quote by John Lewis Gaddis

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

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

— Wilfred Burchett

Nagasaki and Hiroshima remind us to put peace first every day; to work on conflict prevention and resolution, reconciliation, and dialogue; and to tackle…

— Antonio Guterres

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

— Fumio Kishida

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It…

— Wilfred Burchett

“We naturally try to forget our personal tragedies, serious or trifling, as soon as possible (even something as petty as being scorned or disdained…

— Kenzaburō Ōe

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of…

— Wilfred Burchett

The city of Hiroshima stands as more than a monument to massive death and destruction. It stands as a living testament to the necessity…

— Edward Kennedy

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can…

— Edward Teller

What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city…

— Archibald MacLeish

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

“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