Airplane Quote by Paul Tibbets

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

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

I saw the bombs, and, like a kid, I looked back at them. Instantly there was fire everywhere.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

In this first testing ground of the atomic bomb I have seen the most terrible and frightening desolation in four years of war. It…

— Wilfred Burchett

The atom was unleashed in 1946, right when all this stuff was occurring. And the bomb's incredible release of energy and light may have…

— Dwight Schultz

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about…

— Fritz Kreisler

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes.…

— Reba McEntire

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic…

— Wilfred Burchett

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

— Wilfred Burchett

We were trying to get all of the planes down out of the sky. And we watched as the towers of the World Trade…

— Dick Cheney

“The most striking impression was that of an overwhelming bright light. I had seen under similar conditions the explosion of a large amount—100 tons—of…

— Emilio Segrè

The bomb goes off in Australia, and a 360-degree sphere of ionosphere (which is up there not too far above your heads, not too…

— L. Ron Hubbard