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1 " ..there was a moment when the living room vanished and I saw a great, mushroom-shaped cloud rising into a blue sky. I saw it quite distinctly. "
― Masuji Ibuse , Black Rain
2 " Could this be my own face, I wondered. My heart pounded at the idea, and the face in the mirror grew more and more unfamiliar. "
3 " I hated war. Who cared, after all, which side won? The only important thing was to end it all soon as possible: rather an unjust peace, than a “just” war! I "
4 " War, I concluded, paralyzes people’s power of judgment. "
5 " The one thing that troubles me is the ringing; it persists in my ear day and night, like the tolling of a distant temple bell, warning man of the folly of the bomb…. — "
