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On 6 August 1945, a B29 (the Enola Gay) dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, inflicting a level of destruction that astonished even the bomb’s designers.
Indeed, the city’s distinct geography allowed most of its older neighborhoods to survive the terrible destruction wrought by the second atomic bomb to be dropped on Japan, on 9 August 1945 — despite the fact that the Nagasaki bomb was more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima three days earlier.
In 1960, Penderecki exploded the lyrical associations of the string orchestra in his Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima for 52 stringed instruments, a brutal piece commemorating an act of violence.
The European peace movement, for example, has taken -shima from Hiroshima to denote a site of nuclear devastation.
Like the Hiroshima museum, the final message is not of victims demanding sympathy but of an entire community committed to total nuclear disarmament for the sake of the entire planet, with its own message of “Never again. ”