" 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. "

― Charles Pellegrino , The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back