#hiroshima

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

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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

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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

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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

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

— John Hersey

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Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime. ↗

— George Wald

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What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima. ↗

— John Hersey

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I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#anniversary #bombings #cities #civil #civil society

Japan learned from the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that the tragedy wrought by nuclear weapons must never be repeated and that humanity and nuclear weapons cannot coexist. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#cannot #coexist #hiroshima #humanity #japan

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#curb #deter #force #hiroshima #history