The Hiroshima Peace Memorial is a ruin of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall. The hall was bombed by the U.S. Army Air Forces on 6 August 1945, killing 140,000 people. It is now commonly called the Genbaku Dome, Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome. The Dome was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996.
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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial is a ruin of the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall. The hall was bombed by the U.S. Army Air Forces on 6 August 1945, killing 140,000 people. The building was originally designed by the Czech architect Jan Letzel. It is now commonly called the Genbaku Dome, Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome. The Dome was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. It serves as a memorial to the people who were killed in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. It has undergone two minor preservation projects to stabilize the ruin between October 1989 and March 1990. In December 1996, the Dome was registered on UNESCO’s World Heritage List based on its representation as a symbol of peace and as a destructive force on a human population.
It was also included on the World Heritage Committee’s List of Delegates from the United States and China for the first time in its history in December 1996. The dome was scheduled to be demolished with the rest of the ruins, but the majority of the building was intact, delaying the demolition plans. It stands almost exactly as it did after the bombing on August 6, 1945. Because the explosion was almost directly overhead, the building has held up to earthquakes before and since the bombing.
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