“I think that what has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been a deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it’s been memory,” [Hersey] said in 1986, in a rare interview. “The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.” FearWeaponsMemoryWeapons Of Mass DestructionAtomic BombJohn Hersey Book:Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World Source: Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World