"I think that 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."
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John Hersey  

(via theparisreview)

Read John Hersey’s landmark 1946 report on the bombing of Hiroshima, now online.

(via newyorker)

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