(Source: American University) At exactly fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, on August 6, 2015, a large bronze bell tolled 10 times. Its haunting tone echoed throughout a city that aside from the ever-present chirping of cicadas, fell dead silent. The reality of what happened in this place on this date 70 years ago to the second was stark and inescapable to the 40,000 people gathered in central Hiroshima’s Peace Park. While a boy in a white shirt and a young woman wearing a black dress struck the bell over the course of a minute on a blistering hot day, many in the crowd folded their handheld paper fans and bowed their heads. Some closed their eyes. Others interlaced their fingers in...
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