The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, no…

Noam Chomsky
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The anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit. ✨ Noam Chomsky (2015). Because We Say So, p.55, City Lights Books
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