Word: hiroshima
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...After the war, many scientists, appalled at the human toll their work had taken in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, deserted the field of nuclear-weapons development. Ogle was not one of them. Says he of the wartime deaths the bombs had caused: "Our purpose was to do just that." Congress placed atomic development under a newly created, civilian-controlled Atomic Energy Commission in the hope that its pursuits would be mainly peaceful. Yet some scientists were already warning that the U.S. atomic monopoly could not long be maintained, that the Russians were making progress. A far-sighted AEC commissioner. Rear Admiral...
Many of his themes deal with social protest. A forthcoming opera, on injustice, will deal with Russian and American bombs ("I am against all bombs"); a tone poem about Hiroshima will be introduced at Edinburgh this summer...
Last Year at Marienbad. A Gordian knot of cinema tied by two ingenious Frenchmen, Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet and Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Man Amour), which seems to make every pint-pot intellectual feel like an Alexander...
...Pilgrims, both refugees from the atomic attack on Hiroshima in 1945, carried a large banner reading: "Patients in bomb hospitals send their prayers...
...shouts of "Remember Pearl Harbor" from hecklers, one of the Hiroshima survivors told how his parents had been killed in the atomic attack and the responsibility for raising him had fallen on a destitute grandmother. The pilgrims, who are currently on a world tour, read a telegram of "good wishes" from President Kennedy to the people of Hiroshima...