Destruction Quote by Takashi Nagai

Nagasaki is not just an international city with a long and fascinating history. It is a global inspiration for all those who seek to…

— Antonio Guterres

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on…

— Noam Chomsky

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

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

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 bombs held in current nuclear arsenals are seventy times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. If we don't begin opposing the…

— Johann Hari

Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the…

— Eisaku Sato

Men and women of the world, never again plan war! With this atomic bomb, war can only mean suicide for the human race. From…

— Takashi Nagai

Now when I look back to the Guildford of that time, it seems far more exotic to me than Nagasaki.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military…

— Kurt Vonnegut