Not a particular country, not a particular city, and not a particular people.
"John Richard Hersey" was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction/Pulitzer Prize-winning American writer and journalist considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. Hersey's Hiroshima (book)/account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest piece of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous writers! More John Hersey on Wikipedia.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.
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