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This is A-Bomb Dome replica at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. The A-Bomb Dome itself is curently under a periodic maintenance as you can see at WS.

Don't forget to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park Complex with several monuments and buildings when you come here. The park is dedicated to the legacy of Hiroshima as the first city in the world to suffer a nuclear attack which led to the death of as many as 140,000 people by the end of 1945.

It is a great education source for us, to memorialize the victims, and to establish the memory of nuclear horrors and advocate world peace.
The first bomb was dropped on Monday, August 6, 1945, followed on August 9 by the detonation of the second bomb over Nagasaki.
Six days after the detonation over Nagasaki, on August 15, Japan announced its surrender and was followed by some events, one was the declaration of my country's independence, Indonesia, from the Japanese on August 17, 1945.

I watched a documentary about the tragedy, it's Survivors of Hiroshima from HBO channel and quite surprised to find that nowadays some Japanese youngsters don't even know about this.
I rather think, that this was so painful for the survivors, they tried to keep it from the younger generation of the country.

The decision taken to drop the bombs might influence the course of events in the future, good and bad, but the destruction and over 200,000 deaths, nearly all civilians, for me personally is something that very hard to accept.

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