Jonathan Schell on Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

“What happened at Hiroshima was less than a millionth part of a holocaust at present levels of world nuclear armament.”

“The Hiroshima people’s experience, is a picture of what our whole world is always poised to become, a backdrop of scarcely imaginable horror lying just behind the surface of our normal life, and capable of breaking through into that normal life at any second.”