The history professor Lifton interviewed is similarly at a loss: I climbed Hikiyama Hill and looked down. I saw that Hiroshima had disappeared. . . . I was shocked by the sight. . . . What I felt then and still feel now I just can't explain with words. Of course I saw many dreadful scenes after that--but that experience, looking down and finding nothing left of Hiroshima--was so shocking that I simply can't express what I felt. . . . Hiroshima didn't exist--that was mainly what I saw--Hiroshima just didn't exist.2677