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A girl floats a paper lantern on the Motoyasu River to comfort souls of victims killed by the atomic bombing, past the Atomic Bomb Dome at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Peace Park in western Japan.
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70th anniversary of atomic bombing of Hiroshima

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

A girl floats a paper lantern on the Motoyasu River to comfort souls of victims killed by the atomic bombing, past the Atomic Bomb Dome at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Peace Park in western Japan.

  (KIMIMASA MAYAMA / EPA)

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

A Sept. 8, 1945 photo, of an Allied correspondent standing in the rubble in front of the shell of a building that once was an exhibition center and government office in Hiroshima, Japan, a month after the first atomic bomb ever used in warfare was dropped by the U.S.

  (Stanley Troutman / Associated Press)

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

A man is silhouetted against floating paper lanterns released to comfort souls of victims killed by the atomic bombing during World War II in 1945, on the River Motoyasu at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in western Japan.

  (KIYOSHI OTA / EPA)

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

A Hiroshima and Nagasaki 70th anniversary commemoration ceremony is held at the Santa Monica Civic Center, where attendees including Regina Sakurai and Asami Hayashi, from right, participate in a moment of silence at time the bomb was dropped over Hiroshima.

  (Christina House / For The Times)

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

A woman stands in front of a photo of a watch that stopped at 8:15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, the time of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, in the exhibition “War and Peace” in Dresden, Germany.

  (Jens Meyer / Associated Press)

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

Players from Japanese professional baseball team Hiroshima Carp wear the number 86 on the back of their uniforms, a reference to the Aug. 6 date of the bombing, as they offer prayers for A-bomb victims before a game in Hiroshima.

  (JIJI PRESS / AFP/Getty Images)

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

Anti-nuclear activists, symbolizing remaining international nuclear stockpile numbers, rally at the Place de la Republique in Paris to mark the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb.

  (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP/Getty Images)

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

Anti-nuclear activists hold a rally at the Place de la Republique in Paris to mark the 70th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb.

  (ALAIN JOCARD / AFP/Getty Images)

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

Kazumi Matsui, right, mayor of Hiroshima, and the family members of the deceased bow before they place the victims list of the atomic bomb at the Hiroshima Memorial Cenotaph during the ceremony to mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

  (Eugene Hoshiko / Associated Press)

70th anniversary of the atomic bombing

People offer prayers for victims of the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bombing in front of the cenotaph at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Peace Park.

  (KIMIMASA MAYAMA / EPA)

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70th anniversary of atomic bombing of Hiroshima

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