The whole damn thing [his security hearing] was a farce, and these people are trying to make a tragedy out of it.... I had never said that I had regretted participating in a responsible way in the making of the bomb. I said that perhaps he [Kipphardt] had forgotten Guernica, Coventry, Hamburg, Dresden, Dachau, Warsaw, and Tokyo ; but I had not, and that if he found it so difficult to understand, he should write a play about something else.