We are traveling in a Hikari Shinkansen (bullet) train to Kyoto at warp speed. Cities morph into tunnels, bridges, mountains. Humans racing, we always want more. Time once stood still in Hiroshima. 8.15 am, August 6, 1945. Today the A-bomb dome and peace park are the only reminders of what happened here. You cannot imagine the scale of destruction – and it is even harder to believe this disaster was inflicted by mankind…
Martyrs, guinea pigs, victims, survivors, aggressors,… the people of Hiroshima were all these things. But when they were hit with the biggest weapon ever made, it destroyed their whole city in a flash and killed 80.000 people instantly. It slowly killed even more than that in the months and years after the blast.
And how did Hiroshima respond?
‘We must be advocates of peace.‘
