• What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.

  Archibald Macleish
  American poet 1892-1982
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1. breakthrough
2. population
3. explicitly
4. triumphs
5. purposes
6. defined

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What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined. by : Archibald Macleish

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