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Hiroshima Sights

Atomic Bomb Dome

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Lonely Planet review for Atomic Bomb Dome

Perhaps the starkest reminder of the destruction visited upon Hiroshima is the Atomic Bomb Dome , across the river from the Peace Memorial Park. Built by a Czech architect in 1915, the building served as the Industrial Promotion Hall until the bomb exploded almost directly above it. Everyone inside was killed, but the building itself was one of very few left standing anywhere near the epicentre. Despite local misgivings, a decision was taken after the war to preserve the shell of the building as a memorial. Declared a Unesco World Heritage Site in December 1996, the propped-up ruins are floodlit at night, and have become a grim symbol of the city's tragic past.

 

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    Ground zero of the nuclear age

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    What is now the A-bomb Dome was almost directly below the first atomic detonation intended for the murder of human beings. I use that term with full knowledge of its implications, but the deliberate killing of noncombatants providing no aid to the enemy is murder. Hiroshima was not the military installation President Truman deceitfully claimed it to be. Moreover, the leadership of Japan had been trying to surrender for some time. The frequent claim is that the US held out until unconditional surrender could be achieved, and this too is a lie. The US accepted surrender with the only term Japan had ever required: that they be allowed to keep their Emperor. The lives lost at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were of a most heinous crime, a flamboyant gesture of intimidation to the Soviet Union.

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