Chiefs Quote by Wilfred Burchett

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

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic…

— Wilfred Burchett

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 had a profound effect upon me.

— 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

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than…

— Wilfred Burchett

In some ways more painful is the fact that their experience appears to be fading from the collective memory of humankind. Having never experienced…

— Tadatoshi Akiba

... the blinding Hiroshima flash... literally photographed the shadow cast by beings and things, so that every surface immediately became war's recording surface, its film.

— Paul Virilio

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there…

— Ray Bradbury

It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age…

— Arnon Goldfinger

“The atom bomb wasn’t used in Korea,” Father contributed. They really didn’t see it. “America planned to use the bomb,” she insisted. “Everything was…

— Jane Davis

“I come and stand at every door But none can hear my silent tread I knock and yet remain unseen For I am dead…

— Nazim Hikmet