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#hiroshima

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Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.


Pablo Picasso


#every #genius #hiroshima #leads #negative

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.


Joseph Rotblat


#achievement #atom #atom bomb #became #bomb

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.


Joseph Rotblat


#average #been #bombs #fifteen #hiroshima

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love.


Sylvester Stallone


#dull #good #had #hasn #hiroshima

Well, they didn't lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it's just a few large buildings and aircraft, it's not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.


Bruce Sterling


#aircraft #berlin #buildings #down #few

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


Wilfred Burchett


#ever #greater #hiroshima #intellectual #journalist

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.


Wilfred Burchett


#city #does #existence #had #hiroshima

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.


Wilfred Burchett


#atomic #burned #centre #except #explosion

I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.


Jonathan Kozol


#been #bombing #books #check #classroom

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.


John Hersey


#books #death #hiroshima #japan #ways-to-die






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