Survivors Of Hiroshima Quotes

The only people who should be allowed to govern countries with nuclear weapons are mothers, those who are still breastfeeding their babies."--Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only survivor of both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings.

Under many houses, people screamed for help, but no one helped; in general, survivors that day assisted only their relatives or immediate neighbors, for they could not comprehend or tolerate a wider circle of misery.

A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one street-car instead of the next that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time none of them knew anything.

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We know—more from the faces immortalized on a handful of photographs than from the words of survivors—that the women and men who experienced that moment in Hiroshima believed they had encountered the beginning of the end of the world. There will never be enough future to prove them wrong.

وقد قالت كايانو لمؤرخين:"أتذكر أشياء عندما كنت صغيرة، لكن معظمها سيء. اندلعت الحرب في السنة التي ولدت فيها. في أثناء طفولتي، كانت هناك غارات جوية طوال الوقت. كانت رهيبة، لكن بأي حال، كانت لدي أمي، لهذا كان الوقت لطيفًا، وأشعر بسعادة كبيرة. رأيت القنبلة الذرية، وكنت في الرابعة آنذاك. كانت القنبلة الذرية آخر شيء وقع في أثناء الحرب، ولم تحدث أشياء سيئة أخرى بعدها، لكن ليس لدي أم منذ ذلك الوقت. لهذا، حتى إذا لم يعد الوضع سيئًا، إلا أنني لست سعيدة".

عند نهاية كلامه، رفع فتى يده وسأل:"سيد ساسكي، أي بلد ألقى القنبلة الذريّة؟" لم يكن يتوقع سؤالاً بسيطًا إلى ذلك الحد ويمكن الإجابة عنه بكلمة واحده.أجاب ماساهيرو:"مضت أكثر من ستين سنة على إلقاء القنبلتين. جعل الله الجميع سواسية. لهذا نسيت من ألقى القنبلة". نظر الجمهور، بمن فيهم ضابط شرطة كان يقف قريبًا، إليه بذهول وصمت. أومأ الفتى ، الذي كان يبدو في الحادية عشرة من عمره، متفهّمًا ورفع إبهامه لماساهيرو.

In the writings of many contemporary psychics and mystics (e.g., Gopi Krishna, Shri Rajneesh, Frannie Steiger, John White, Hal Lindsay, and several dozen others whose names I have mercifully forgotten) there is a repeated prediction that the Earth is about to be afflicted with unprecedented calamities, including every possible type of natural catastrophe from Earthquakes to pole shifts. Most of humanity will be destroyed, these seers inform us cheerfully. This cataclysm is referred to, by many of them, as "the Great Purification" or "the Great Cleansing," and is supposed to be a punishment for our sins. I find the morality and theology of this Doomsday Brigade highly questionable. A large part of the Native American population was exterminated in the 19th century; I cannot regard that as a "Great Cleansing" or believe that the Indians were being punished for their sins. Nor can I think of Hitler's death camps, or Hiroshima or Nagasaki, as "Great Purifications." And I can't make myself believe that the millions killed by plagues, cancers, natural catastrophes, etc., throughout history were all singled out by some Cosmic Intelligence for punishment, while the survivors were preserved due to their virtues. To accept the idea of "God" implicit in such views is logically to hold that everybody hit by a car deserved it, and we should not try to get him to a hospital and save his life, since "God" wants him dead. I don't know who are the worst sinners on this planet, but I am quite sure that if a Higher Intelligence wanted to exterminate them, It would find a very precise method of locating each one separately. After all, even Lee Harvey Oswald -- assuming the official version of the Kennedy assassination -- only hit one innocent bystander while aiming at JFK. To assume that Divinity would employ earthquakes and pole shifts to "get" (say) Richard Nixon, carelessly murdering millions of innocent children and harmless old ladies and dogs and cats in the process, is absolutely and ineluctably to state that your idea of God is of a cosmic imbecile.

The 'will to peace' is the best answer that we can imagine to the 'will to war', which unfortunately seems as strong in this century as it was in the middle of the last.

Dr. Harold Urey suffered a nervous breakdown after he saw that instead of bringing an end to war the automatic bomb led o the Cold War-era mass production of nuclear weapons.

من أجل ماذا ؟ نكرم قتلانا في الحرب بتكديس مزيد من الجثث فوق بعضها بعضا ؟

If you had been here on that day and at that hour, if you had see the hell that opened up on Earth before our eyes, if you had even a glimpse of that, you would never, never entertain the crazy thought of another war. If there is another war, automatic bombs may explode everywhere and there will be no beautiful songs of distant Earth-no poems, no paintings, no music mo literature, no research. Only death.

All the suffering of the past means nothing if we do not draw lessons from which to build a better world for tomorrow's child.

The question of whether the atomic bombs should have been exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki is a subject for another time, and for people to debate. This is simply the story of what happened to people and objects under the bombs, and it is dedicated to the slim hope that no one will ever this way again. As we move toward the precipice of runaway nuclear proliferation and even nuclear terrorism, we must remember that Hiroshima and Nagasaki represent the approximate destructive power of the weapons we are likely to see again. The hope that past is not prologue may indeed slim, but I've never known the angel Hope when she as not looking a bit anorexic.

Had Mary Shelley or Edgar Allan Poe been born into the mid-twentieth century they would never have had to invent horror.

I wonder if there is an operation that removes memories.

In short, those who survived the bomb were, if not merely lucky, in a greater or lesser degree selfish, self-centered-guided by instinct and not by civilization. And we know it we who have survived.

Even if you are one of the last people on earth, you must be against war.

We have no choice but to be born into this world. Technology is constantly making the world smaller and more interconnected, whether everyone likes this or not. Whoever leads the larger nations in the future, the large countries would help the smaller countries to develop and to live in happiness.

Hitler looked at me with gleaming, feverish eyes: "Do you know, Skorzeny, if the energy and radioactivity released through nuclear fission were used as a weapon, that would mean the end of our planet?" "The effects would be frightful..." "Naturally! Even if the radioactivity were controlled and then nuclear fission used as a weapon, the effects would still he horrible! When Dr. Todt was with me, I read that such a device with controlled radioactivity would release energy that would leave behind devastation which could only be compared with the meteors that fell in Arizona and near Lake Baykal in Siberia. That means that every form of life, not only human, but animal and plant life as well, would be totally extinguished for hundreds of years within a fadius of forty kilometers. That would be the apocalypse. And how could one keep such a secret? Impossible! No! No country, no group of civilized men can consciously accept such a responsibility. From strike to counterstrike humanity would inevitably exterminate itself. Only tribes in the Amazon district and in the jungles of Sumatra would have a certain chance of surviving." These marginal notes by Hitler lasted scarcely more than a few minutes, but I remember those minutes precisely. At the beginning of my time as a prisoner of war, in August 1945, I heard that two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Unnecessary bombs, by the way, for the Japanese emperor had already asked the Americans for their peace terms. While a prisoner American officers constantly asked me the same question, "How did you bring Hitler out of Berlin at the end of April 1945 and where have you hidden him?" I can still see the consternated expressions of the American officer before me, when, disgusted with the question, I answered: "Adolf Hitler is dead, but he was right when he said that you and I would be the survivors of the Amazon.

Some never got started. With much fanfare Chávez announced Venezuela would build thermonuclear plants with Russian help. “The world needs to know this, and nothing is going to stop us. We’re free, we’re sovereign, we’re independent,” he said in 2010. For strictly peaceful energy generation, he added, and underlined the point by inviting survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Venezuela. Foreign media took it seriously, producing froth in Washington. Chávez with nukes! In reality, Venezuela’s scientific establishment was hollowed, the once prestigious Institute for Scientific Research a husk. Physicists were emigrating, and the country’s only reactor, a small research facility, had closed from neglect. After a tsunami wrecked Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011, Chávez closed the curtain on his atomic theater, solemnly halting development for safety reasons and urging other countries to follow his lead in protecting humanity. “It is something extremely risky and dangerous for the whole world.

When the bomb detonated, many thousands of citizens of Hiroshima disappeared off the face of the earth, instantly and without a trace. Survivors would remember the flash of light first, followed by a sound that had never been heard by human ears.

We carry deep in our hearts, every one of us, stubborn, unhealing wounds. When we are alone. we brood upon them; and when we see our neighbors we are again reminded of the wounds, theirs as well as ours.

After all, haven't scientist and Buddhists, physicians and Christians been saying very much the same thing all along to those who had ears to listen? It's just that, sometimes we use different language. Different words.

If our concept of… civilization was to mean anything,” he stated, “we had to acknowledge the humanity of even our misled and murderous enemies.” When he got into Japan, and then into Hiroshima—no small feat in an occupied country closely controlled by General Douglas MacArthur and his forces—Hersey managed to interview dozens of blast survivors.