To Be A Writer Is To Throw

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.

It's A Failure Of National Vision When You Regard Children As Weapons, And Talents As Materials You Can Mine, Assay, And Fabricate For Profit And Defense.

The Writer Must Not Invent. The Legend On The License Must Read: None Of This Was Made Up.

There, In The Tin Factory, In The First Moment Of The Atomic Age, A Human Being Was Crushed By Books.

Events Are Less Important Than Our Responses To Them.