Hiroshima War Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #10

He had the body taken to a crematorium; then, that night, it was taken out a back way and was delivered to the American-run Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, on top of a hill to the east of the city. […] He was shown that his father's brain had atrophied, his large intestine had become enlarged, and there was a cancer the size of a ping pong ball in his liver. (5.123)

Although Hersey doesn't say it outright, it seems implied that Dr. Sasaki's son had his dad's body autopsied at the American-run Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission to determine whether his father's body/health had been adversely affected by the bomb.

Quote #11

On the sea voyage, an ambitious idea grew in his mind. He would spend his life working for peace. He was becoming convinced that the collective memory of the hibakusha would be a potent force for peace in the world, and that there ought to be in Hiroshima a center where the experience of the bombing could become the focus of international studies of means to assure that atomic weapons would never be used again. (5.130)

On his way over to the States to raise some money to rebuild his church, Mr. Tanimoto apparently decided that he would go beyond that single goal to try to help promote world peace—and the use of atomic weapons.