“It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.” ChildrenFallVisionTalentMinesMaterialsWeaponsRegardProfitDefenseHiroshimaFabricate Book:The Child Buyer Source: The Child Buyer
“At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 1945, Japanese time, at the moment when the atomic bomb flashed above Hiroshima, Miss Toshiko Sasaki, a clerk in the personnel department of the East Asia Tin Works, had just sat down at her place in the plant office and was turning her head to speak to the girl at the next desk.” MomentsPastGirlNextSpeakMorningMinutesMissingOfficeWeaponsPlantEightEastSatBombsDepartmentFifteenDesksAsiaAugustAtomic BombTinClerksPersonnelHiroshimaEast Asia Book:Hiroshima Source: Hiroshima
“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.” WorldWarMemoriesHappenedSafeWeaponsBombsHiroshimaHiroshima And NagasakiDeterrence Author:John Hersey
