that we used the bomb, and twice ... continues to appall and disturb me
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Bern Porter, who worked on the Manhattan Project, wrote this poem titled "Growing Up In the Nuclear Age"
Leaving the dining room of the Faculty Club, University of California, after a more than pleasant lunch, I entered the Club's lounge, picked up that morning's edition of the New York Times to read not only that a bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima but also exactly what I had been doing with my life and talents the past four years at Princeton, Oak Ridge, Berkeley.
One physicist reader started crying, screaming in a wild destructive frenzy and had to be carried out strapped tightly to a stretcher. Another, dazed, voluntarily stumbled to an asylum for relief. A third took off for Minnesota to become a dairy farmer.
Myself, I am still numb after thirty-seven years, yet strong enough to have lived since in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Norway, Russia in a futile attempt to understand what took place that August day of 45'.
I am very sorry Madame Curie and Lise Meitner did not keep their findings to themselves, that their facts ever got into the textbooks, that war makers pulled their ideas out and ran wild with them to destruction in the interests of nationalism and money.
I am even more sad about my part in it all, even ashamed, and do here now apologize to all and sundry, as if such as that could conceivably aid, even assuage my conscience now that time is too late; and of course confessing does not help in any way, it is too late the monster is permanently out.
War is a mental disorder of the highest order, a public manifestation that all who arrange, direct, participate are madly deranged. The insanity touches us all and we have nowhere to go.

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The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima. See faculty.ucmerced.edu/smalloy...tos.html

from a site called "sevenroads.org" that collects book trade labels i found this interesting one a store called capital book store in sacramento calif.