Ahimsa Quote by Steven Galloway

“Suddenly, there was an enormous flash of light, the brightest light I have ever seen or that I think anyone has ever seen. It…

— Isidor Isaac Rabi

“We had the air war overhead, which was frightening, but we were, in a way, getting used to it. Now, however, we could hear…

— Alfred Nestor

“It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and…

— Tim O'Brien

“Suddenly, an incredibly loud explosion was heard rumbling behind them. It sounded like someone dropped a mountain from the clouds. It was a deep…

— Jason Medina

“We could see the impact of an explosion long before the boom, so a hill out there on the horizon, maybe a mile or…

— Scott C. Johnson

“I watched webs of lightning crackle in the dark air, framed by their black-cloud background, touching down on the rim forty or fifty miles…

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

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

“But of all that he saw, what gripped him the most were the light flashes in the darkened atmosphere that he had seen before—but…

— Alan Shepard

“Bombs The first bomb dropped unheard, unlike the loudly dropped second and third; then the final bomb dropped from the sky to the ground…

— Bo Burnham

“At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap…

— Richard Adams

“desperately knocking against the blind little world, i loosened one of its planks, opening a window to a new, wider world. There, spread out,…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred, the clear blue sky from which…

— Joan Didion