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MU: But I wanted you to think back in 1947 when you saw all the devastation in Japan, and can you imagine they've come back as well as they have when you saw them last, or this year?

MM: Well, it's been many years since 1947, and of course, they have all these high rises in Tokyo (and) Hiroshima. You could hardly recognize some of the places. And they keep improving. It's amazing. The cities are just beautiful. That's what I think.

MU: Did you see the memorial, Hiroshima bomb memorial?

MM: In Hiroshima? Not this time, but yes.

MU: You've seen it.

MM: And the museum. I hate to go in the third time, it just scares me. You've seen it?

MU: Yes, yes.

MM: Oh God, it's really something.

MU: Well, I was gonna ask you, after all the bombing and the atom bomb and so on, we human beings apparently never learn. We keep repeating mistakes over and over again. What did we learn in the last fifty to sixty years?

MM: Well, that the bomb is such a destructive weapon that should never be used again, never, ever, as they say. And I hope that never happens in our generation or in any future generations. And that's my feeling.

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