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 a...s it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal c...onsciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough ... had occurred and that a great part of the population of... a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »