Die 32. Woche, 2015 – 70 Jahre nach Hiroshima und Nagasaki

Wir wussten, dass es links und rechts Menschen töten würde. Aber mein Hauptinteresse war dabei, bestmögliche Arbeit zu leisten, damit wir das Töten möglichst schnell beenden konnten.
(Paul Warfield Tibbets, Pilot des Bombers „Enola Gay“, der mit seiner Atombombe Hiroshima zerstörte, in einer Äußerung gegenüber „The Columbus Dispatch“, zitiert von Spiegel-Online)

After Hiroshima was bombed, I saw a photograph of the side of a house with the shadows of the people who had lived there burned into the wall from the intensity of the bomb. The people were gone, but their shadows remained.
(Ray Bradbury)

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are ‚among the most unspeakable crimes in history.‘ I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.
(Noam Chomsky)

How do we prevent Iran developing an atomic bomb, when, on the American side, dropping atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is not recognised as a war crime?
(Gunter Grass)

Hiroshima has become a metaphor not just for nuclear war but for war and destruction and violence toward civilians. It’s not just the idea we should not use nuclear arms. We should not start another war because it’s madness.
(Max von Sydow)