Clear Quote by Robert Jay Lifton

“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

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

“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

My childhood was marked by the great fear of nuclear holocaust. We practiced our Civil Defense Drills, lining up in hallways, curled to the…

— Julianna Baggott

“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

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

— Polly Toynbee

Many people avoid talking about death, but it never bothered me. The principal of my high school was an excellent teacher. One day he…

— Kathryn Tucker Windham

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find…

— Robert Jay Lifton

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

— Kenzaburō Ōe

If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death.

— Ottessa Moshfegh

“A specific new fear—that a whole city could just disappear in an instant—permeated the American consciousness in the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Writer…

— Garrett M. Graff

“Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana