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Hiroshima Quotes

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.

Start Remember Will Hiroshima Active

Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

Wilfred Burchett

Me Hiroshima Profound Effect Had

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.

Hiroshima More Old Classroom Years

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

Great Hiroshima Others Heat Ashes

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

History Stand Hiroshima Position

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.

People House Wall Shadows Hiroshima

I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.

Quality Small Hiroshima Historical

I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

Questions Want Atomic Bomb Hiroshima

Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.

You Hiroshima Depressing Something

Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man Know Hiroshima Capable Auschwitz

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.

Fear Memory World Hiroshima Safe

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

War Crime Hiroshima Those Dropping

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.

Genius Hiroshima Leads Einstein

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

Deep Find Nobody Hiroshima Because

To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Hersey's 'Hiroshima.'

Time Me Crisis Hiroshima Secret

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of a warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and of Hiroshima.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Time War World New Will Hiroshima

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was 'Godzilla' - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it's a classic in Japan.

Interesting Movies Hiroshima Classic

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 Look Looks Hiroshima Existence

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.

Humanity Tragedy Hiroshima Never

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