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. — John Hersey

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Mini who’s who:

John Hersey : American Writer
Born:  June 17, 1914
Died:  March 24, 1993