Hiroshima and the Peace Memorial Museum
Hiroshima and the Peace Memorial Museum Growing up in the latter years of the Cold War the subjects of nuclear wars, mushroom clouds and Armageddon were never far away. We had Reagan and Thatcher talking tough to the revolving procession of aged Soviet leaders while the movies of the day depicted scenes of nuclear wars that caused genuine panic in many quarters when they were released. All these nightmare scenarios would have been based on pure hypothesis and speculation had it not been for two very real atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki . The names of these two faraway cities stayed in my mind since childhood. I found it hard to believe that places that had suffered such absolute devastation could have risen from the rubble to become thriving major cities once again. Once we had decided to visit Japan these were two cities I had to visit. Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum The first stop for visitors to Hiroshima is usually the Peace Memorial Museum. The museum is very popula...
