“My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.”
Author details
Related authors
Other Wilfred Burchett Quotes
Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.
Wilfred Burchett 
60% of people like this quote
My anger with the US was not at first, that they had used that weapon - although that anger came later.
Wilfred Burchett
60% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
Wilfred Burchett
54% of people like this quote