Re: アメリカの良心
投稿者： nyankotyanndamon 投稿日時： 2008/08/29 12:13 投稿番号： [25661 / 41162]
Friday, Aug. 8, 2008
A-bomb physicist pays first visit to Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) A U.S. physicist who was involved in the Manhattan Project visited Hiroshima for the first time Wednesday, 63 years after the atomic bombing.
Conscientious objector: Joan Hinton, an American physicist involved in developing the atomic bomb, visits Hiroshima on Wednesday. KYODO PHOTO
Joan Hinton, 86, now lives in a farming village near Beijing and engages in dairy farming — a life far removed from what she had been doing at the Los Alamos facility in New Mexico where the first atomic bomb was produced.
Hinton said she had never thought the bombs she helped develop would actually be used against humans, and she found out about the bombings in the newspaper.
"We (physicists) were very against it. We thought it was terrible," she told reporters. "I've worked in pure physics. . . . That is what was wrong. If you make a bicycle, you have to know where it's going," she said, noting scientists should be aware of the potential of their discoveries.
After learning the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she walked away from nuclear development and in 1948 moved to China to engage in agriculture. She later met her American husband there.
"I went to China and I used my knowledge to work on agriculture to help people I didn't want to kill people."
In 1952, she released a statement saying, "I feel a deep sense of guilt and shame at the part I played in this crime against humanity as a whole, and this crime against the Japanese people in particular."
During her visit to Hiroshima, Hinton visited the A-bomb Dome and met with survivors.
While saying "it is terrible" that one of the survivors had to undergo 15 operations on her face, Hinton said she is glad that Hiroshima has maintained the dome.
Hinton visited Hiroshima at the invitation of the Japanese publisher of "Command the Morning," a novel by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck about the Manhattan Project and its consequences.
A-bomb physicist pays first visit to Hiroshima
HIROSHIMA (Kyodo) A U.S. physicist who was involved in the Manhattan Project visited Hiroshima for the first time Wednesday, 63 years after the atomic bombing.
Conscientious objector: Joan Hinton, an American physicist involved in developing the atomic bomb, visits Hiroshima on Wednesday. KYODO PHOTO
Joan Hinton, 86, now lives in a farming village near Beijing and engages in dairy farming — a life far removed from what she had been doing at the Los Alamos facility in New Mexico where the first atomic bomb was produced.
Hinton said she had never thought the bombs she helped develop would actually be used against humans, and she found out about the bombings in the newspaper.
"We (physicists) were very against it. We thought it was terrible," she told reporters. "I've worked in pure physics. . . . That is what was wrong. If you make a bicycle, you have to know where it's going," she said, noting scientists should be aware of the potential of their discoveries.
After learning the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she walked away from nuclear development and in 1948 moved to China to engage in agriculture. She later met her American husband there.
"I went to China and I used my knowledge to work on agriculture to help people I didn't want to kill people."
In 1952, she released a statement saying, "I feel a deep sense of guilt and shame at the part I played in this crime against humanity as a whole, and this crime against the Japanese people in particular."
During her visit to Hiroshima, Hinton visited the A-bomb Dome and met with survivors.
While saying "it is terrible" that one of the survivors had to undergo 15 operations on her face, Hinton said she is glad that Hiroshima has maintained the dome.
Hinton visited Hiroshima at the invitation of the Japanese publisher of "Command the Morning," a novel by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck about the Manhattan Project and its consequences.
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