Wilfred Burchett Quotes About Hiroshima

• The police chief of Hiroshima welcomed me eagerly as the first Allied correspondent to reach the city.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Cities, Police, Firsts

• Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Cities, Squash

• Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Ashes, Heat, Explosions

• When you arrive in Hiroshima you can look around and for 25 and perhaps 30 square miles you can see hardly a building. It gives you an empty feeling in the stomach to see such man-made devastation.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Men, Squares, Giving

• My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Responsibility, Emotional, Intellectual

• Hiroshima had a profound effect upon me.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Profound, Hiroshima, Effects

• In Hiroshima, thirty days after the first atomic bomb destroyed the city and shook the world, people are still dying, mysteriously and horribly-people who were uninjured in the cataclysm from an unknown something which I can only describe as the atomic plague.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Cities, People, Dying

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