Hiroshima Quotes

(on Olivia de Havilland) We`re getting closer together as we get older, but there would be a slight problem of temperament. In fact, it would be bigger than Hiroshima.

I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I`ve had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn`t been dull; I`ve been the Hiroshima of love.

(Upon learning of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith!

I think a lot of people believe that 60 years after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it was time that the Nobel committee would make a gesture to make a statement about the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

Really interesting genre films, especially monster movies, evoke the fears of the times intentionally. Our starting point was Godzilla - the original movie was released less than 10 years after Hiroshima, and it`s a classic in Japan. It came out at the same time as Seven Samurai and is held in equal regard. Yet it was definitely a metaphor for the anxiety of those times, about the fears after Hiroshima and the knowledge that we now had the ability to destroy the world. To give that the form of a giant monster - that was an effective way of exploring that fear.

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.

We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.

Well, they didn`t lack for topics after Hiroshima. Why should 9/11 slow them down? I know it got a lot of press, but it`s just a few large buildings and aircraft, it`s not like D-Day and the Seige of Berlin.

But the first the general public learned about the discovery was the news of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atom bomb. A splendid achievement of science and technology had turned malign. Science became identified with death and destruction.

When the START 2 treaty has been implemented - and remember it has not yet been ratified - we will be left with some 15,000 nuclear warheads, active and in reserve. Fifteen thousand weapons with an average yield of 20 Hiroshima bombs.