Ex-peace museum head recalls fleeing Hiroshima A-bomb over bodies

These stories tell the true hell the people who live through this went through. Japan was horribly militaristic in WWII. Read Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking". There's the Batan Death March. There are terrible accounts of cruelty, sadism, and unrestrained crimes. All of this is true. But the civilians in these cities suffered, too. How ungodly a thing to see a friend vaporized and then to find out your entire family is dead. Japan deserved to lose the war, but to visit upon them what they did to others (just read a few of these accounts) should at least be acknowledged as horrific, too. All we can hope for is that leaders with today's hydrogen bombs don't test them on a real city.

Perhaps Japan shouldn’t have attacked pear harbor and instead found a peaceful resolution to its problems in Asia. The Emperor listed carefully because it was his father that was responsible for not say “NO” to war and led Japan to its defeat.

Bad spelling due to this incessant heat. Too hot!

Let's hope and pray that no other human being ever has to experience what Harada-san and the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki experienced in 1945.

Both of my grandfathers worked at Y-12 in oak ridge Tennessee. That is where the uranium 235 for the bomb dropped on Hiroshima was enriched.

I thought that I knew all about the bomb. Then, on a visit to Japan, I went to the museum in Hiroshima. I was overwhelmed. The Atomic Energy Museum in Oak Ridge Tennessee was mostly propaganda.

I can confidentiality say that most Americans don't really know what actually happened in Hiroshima. That museum was an epiphany. The watch. The sandals. The tricycle.

This year, somehow Hiroshima city intends to drastically regulate citizen's expression or appeal about peace or nuclear power at peace-praying ceremony.

"Around 140,000 lives were lost to the Hiroshima bombing, and around 70,000 of them are still unidentified...For their sake, atomic bomb survivors and people the world over must take action to eliminate nuclear arms," Harada said.

The dawn of nuclear arms has resulted in a lasting relative peace that the world had never seen before. The threat of nuclear annihilation has done more to stay the hands of warmongers than any other factor. This may be a depressing fact but it is a fact nonetheless