#shima

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

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

— Edward Bond

#history #living #people #scars #still

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#had #hiroshima #me #profound #profound effect

The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#chief #city #correspondent #eagerly #first

When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#arrive #building #devastation #empty #feeling

It was because of my deep concerns about nuclear weapons that I went to Hiroshima. And then I was astounded in Hiroshima to find that nobody had really studied it. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#astounded #because #concerns #deep #find

But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death. ↗

— Robert Jay Lifton

#around #began #clear #death #descriptions

When I was a kid, I have two dreams. I want to be a baseball player. Hometown, Hiroshima, has a Japanese baseball franchise team called Hiroshima Carps. You know, and then I want to be a sushi chef. I want to make own restaurant - sushi restaurant. ↗

— Masaharu Morimoto

#baseball #baseball player #called #chef #dreams