Ashes Quote by Wilfred Burchett

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

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

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

No longer a city, but a burnt-out prarie. How empty Hiroshima looks without it's homes.

— John Ziff

“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

Could we have avoided the tragedy of Hiroshima? Could we have started the atomic age with clean hands? No one knows. No one can…

— Edward Teller

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

— Edward Bond

The atom bomb was no “great decision.” It was used in the war, and for your information, there were more people killed by fire…

— Harry S. Truman

We had news this morning of another successful atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki. These two heavy blows have fallen in quick succession upon…

— Henry L. Stimson

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

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

“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