Death Quote by Ronald Schaffer

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

— Kenzaburō Ōe

“It's a good thing we won the war. If we hadn't, I'd be hanged as a war criminal" -- Gen Curtis LeMay, quoted by…

— James Mahaffey

“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

“Killing Japanese didn’t bother me at that time. It was getting the war over with that bothered me. So I wasn’t worried particularly about…

— Ronald Schaffer

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

— David Dellinger

“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

“They kill hundreds of people, those pilots. I would have loved to have flown the plane that dropped the bomb on Japan. A couple…

— Evan Wright

“An old Japanese friend recently confided to me: ' I can't forgive to americans for the fact that Hiroshima wasn't an act of war,…

— Paul Virilio

“The Chicago Daily News Foreign Service presents herewith the first attempt to recount historically one of the great American tragedies of the Pacific War:…

— George Weller

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

“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

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