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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
 A Shrine to Hiroshima
The centre of the Hiroshima Peace Park is the A bomb dome.
Elsewhere the park is studded with monuments that lack the resonance of the dome: the pond of peace, the flame of peace, the peace bell, the fountain of prayer and others including the Children's Peace Monument.
Hiroshima was a city on a war footing, a military centre and site of munitions factories.
www.dhushara.com /book/explod/nuclears/hir.htm   (979 words)

  
 Stephen Brophy.net: July 31, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-29)
The above is inscribed on the cenotaph at Hiroshima Peace Park.
On the bombing of Hiroshima, which as I am sure you know, occurred 60 years ago today Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Staff to Presidents Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and author of 'I Was There' wrote:
The Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the effective sea blockade and the successful bombing with conventional weapons." (William D. Leahy, I Was There, pg.
www.stephenbrophy.net /archive/2005_07_31_archive.html   (1232 words)

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