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This week marks the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. The bombings were the world’s first nuclear attack ever, which took hundreds of thousands of lives and resulted in many further casualties due to the nuclear radiation.

Referring to world history, on August 5, 1945, an allied or rather American aircraft, the B-29 Flying Superfortress flew over the city of Hiroshima in Japan. The plane was carrying 'Little Boy', the nickname for the nuclear bomb capable of releasing an  equivalent to 12,500 tonnes of TNT dynamite. Another bomb codenamed "Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki three days later with roughly the same impact.

Every year, a commemoration is held of the bombing in Hiroshima which took a very devastating toll. Not only local people, but also foreign visitors from other parts of the world are also willing to come there to recollect the most terrible tragedy in the world. They want to see how powerful the atomic bomb explosion was as well as pray for the victims who died.

Now, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is a historical place, a tourism destination that is visited by many foreign tourists. In a way you can call it a blessing in disguise, especially  for the Japanese tourism. In fact, the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum has been on the TripAdvisor list for the second year in a row as the most visited place. Hiroshima seems to be a message of peace to the world. It is a proof of how the destruction of cities and the death of hundreds of thousands of innocent people were due to the war interests.

This place is also touted as a place of real learning on  how nuclear can be very dangerously devastated if used as a weapon of war, especially when the nuclear is in the wrong hands.

Even though it still brings a deep sorrow, Hiroshima is now a place where humans learn to appreciate others’ lives