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The Children's Peace Monument (1958), Hiroshima, Chugoku Region, Honshu island, Japan.

The Children's Peace Monument (1958), Hiroshima city, Hiroshima Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu island, Japan. The Children's peace monument is inscribed: “This is our cry. This is our prayer. For building peace in this world” — honoring the thousands of children killed by Hiroshima’s nuclear bomb. On August 6, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb weapon obliterated nearly everything in central Hiroshima within a two kilometer radius. We were overwhelmed seeing hundreds of students and adults solemnly honoring the memorials to Hiroshima’s 220,000 mostly-civilian deaths from the atomic blast and subsequent radiation. Hiroshima is not radioactive today primarily because the atomic bomb exploded above ground, which caused most of the radioactive material to disperse into the atmosphere and decay rapidly. Despite having its heart cut out in 1945, Hiroshima’s population has grown 8 times since then and thrives today with 1.2 million people.

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The Children's Peace Monument (1958), Hiroshima city, Hiroshima Prefecture, Chugoku Region, Honshu island, Japan. The Children's peace monument is inscribed: “This is our cry. This is our prayer. For building peace in this world” — honoring the thousands of children killed by Hiroshima’s nuclear bomb. On August 6, 1945, the world's first atomic bomb weapon obliterated nearly everything in central Hiroshima within a two kilometer radius. We were overwhelmed seeing hundreds of students and adults solemnly honoring the memorials to Hiroshima’s 220,000 mostly-civilian deaths from the atomic blast and subsequent radiation. Hiroshima is not radioactive today primarily because the atomic bomb exploded above ground, which caused most of the radioactive material to disperse into the atmosphere and decay rapidly. Despite having its heart cut out in 1945, Hiroshima’s population has grown 8 times since then and thrives today with 1.2 million people.
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