Sixty-three years ago, over Hiroshima, Japan, at 8:15 am, (7:15 pm in Washington, DC) the United States dropped the bomb that brought the world into the nuclear age. This year, for the first time, this annual commemoration will be held at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall. Join speakers, musicians, activists against nuclear annihilation, and our honored Hibakusha guests (Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb explosions) to acknowledge the awesome responsibility of that event, consider our role in it and in the subsequent arms race that still threatens the continued existence of life on Earth today, remember those innocent victims who perished in the conflagration, and reflect on ways we can work to make sure it never happens again.n