32 Quotes About Hiroshima

A los órganos ejecutivos de la sociedad les está permitido urdir planes delirantes, e incluso prepararlos con todo detalle contando con el aplauso de parte de la opinión pública.

Una sociedad enferma en la medida en que, de forma aguda, original e inusitada, piensa hasta sus últimas consecuencias el estado en que se encuentra una sociedad que ha elevado al rango de racionalidad su delirio nuclear

I cannot conceive that the man who dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a machine. He also had a heart, just like you. He also had his wife and children, his old mother and father. He was as much a human being as you are—with a difference. He was trained to follow orders without questioning, and when the order was given, he simply followed it.

What the diary does not reveal, for it stops too soon, is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U.S. occupation authorities from publishing scientific articles on the effects of the atomic bombs.

I shall write peace upon your wings,and you shall fly around the worldso that children will no longer haveto die this way.

My wife, although still with her arm in a sling, was so much better this morning that she took care of me. I was amused to hear her ask for some white ointment which she put over her brows to conceal the fact that her eyebrows had been singed. Her returning vanity was a good sign.

El hecho de que los poderosos, cual dioses, esgrimieran poderes apocalípticos no los hizo prudentes y circunspectos, sino arrogantes y crueles.

Y puesto que no habrá nadie para distinguir entre estas dos nadas, éstas acabarán convirtiéndose en una única nada. Ésta es, pues, la forma absolutamente nueva, la forma apocalíptica, de la transitoriedad, nuestra transitoriedad, comparada con la cual todo lo que hasta hoy se había llamado «transitoriedad» se ha tornado una bagatela. Para que esto no se te pase por alto, tu primer pensamiento al despertar ha de ser: «átomo».

I can only imagine that this is what Hiroshima looked like 60 years ago.