Eighty years ago today, early on the morning of August 6, 1945, as part of an ongoing effort to shorten the war with Japan and as an alternative to invasion, the United States detonated an atomic bomb approximately 2,000 feet over downtown Hiroshima. Fires and destruction covered a 4+ mile square mile area, and approximately 140,000 people, mostly civilians, died as a direct result, with additional casualties from radiation and other effects. Following a subsequent bombing of Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered on August 15. 

We visited Hiroshima and the Peace Memorial Park on March 29, 2024 as part of our Around The World tour. It was one of the most memorable… and heart-wrenching… stops of the trip.

This is not the place for political rhetoric, but rather a reminder of the immense loss of life that can result from a single man-made weapon. It is also a tribute to the citizens of Hiroshima, who honored the memory of those lost by creating the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

August 6, 2025

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