The Flame That Burns for "Never Again

On August 6, 1945, a single bomb reduced Hiroshima to ash and shadow. Over 140,000 people perished. The city lay in ruins so complete that scientists predicted nothing would grow there for seventy-five years. Yet by the following spring, oleander flowers pushed through the scorched earth — the first sign that life refused to be extinguished. In 1964, the city lit an eternal flame in the Peace Memorial Park, built at the epicenter of the blast.…