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1 " 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". "
― Charles Pellegrino , The Last Train from Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back
2 " الوحوش الحقيقة تبدو مثلنا تماماً "
3 " 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. "
4 " من أجل ماذا ؟ نكرم قتلانا في الحرب بتكديس مزيد من الجثث فوق بعضها بعضا ؟ "
5 " 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. "
6 " Had Mary Shelley or Edgar Allan Poe been born into the mid-twentieth century they would never have had to invent horror. "
7 " I wonder if there is an operation that removes memories. "
8 " 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. "
9 " 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. "
10 " 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. "
11 " Even if you are one of the last people on earth, you must be against war. "
12 " 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. "
13 " 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. "
14 " 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. "
15 " 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. "