THE GENBAKU DOME (Hiroshima, Japan)
Once the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, this ruin in the city's Peace Memorial Park is a stark reminder of the most destructive force ever created by humankind: the atomic bomb ("Genbaku") dropped here by the U.S. on Aug. 6, 1945; this and the bombing of Nagasaki three days later are the only times nuclear weapons have been used for the purpose of killing.
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