The Peace Memorial Museum has a powerful effect. The exhibits show what the atomic bomb did to Hiroshima and its citizens. The most distressing piece of information that I learnt from the museum is that one reason the bomb was dropped was to justify the expenditure spent on the development of that technology. Thousands of people died horrible deaths on August 6th, 1945 and the weeks following. A large majority of these people were civillians. The exhibition concentrates on the stories of the children killed and I was almost moved to tears on many occasions. Hiroshima is a must-see. Lest we forget.