Hiroshima, Nagasaki to bid for 2020 Olympics Oct 14, 2009
The A-Bomb dome, an UNESCO World Heritage Site, is situated at ground zero of the atomic blast in Hiroshima and stands as a symbol of the nuclear destruction that killed an estimated 140,000 people in 1945. . (MSNBC -- Sports)
Nuke-free world urged on Hiroshima bomb anniversary Aug 6, 2009
About 50,000 people, including 'hibakusha' or atom bomb survivors, politicians and envoys from 59 countries and the United Nations, gathered near the A-bomb Dome, the skeleton of a hall burned by the bomb's intense heat. "The abolition of nuclear weapons is the will not only of the hibakusha but also of the vast majority of people and nations on this planet," said the mayor, Tadatoshi Akiba, head of the international group Mayors for Peace. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Hiroshima: 64th anniversary of bombing Aug 6, 2009
Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba praised US President Barack Obama for his anti-nuclear views as he delivered a speech at the memorial, within sight of the A-bomb dome, a former exhibition hall burned to a skeleton by the bomb's intense heat. The mayor noted Obama said in an address that as the only nuclear power to have used an atomic weapon, the United States has "a moral responsibility to act" to realise a nuclear-free world. (India Times, India)
On this earth -- peace Aug 2, 2009
Most eerie is the so-called A-Bomb Dome, formerly the Hiroshima Prefectural Commercial Exhibition Hall. When the bomb exploded directly overhead, it ravaged the building and killed everyone in it, but remarkably some walls were left intact, along with the skeletal framework of the dome. (Boston Globe)
