69 years ago at 8:15 in the morning, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.<br/> <br />On Wednesday Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and others attended a ceremony to remember those who died in the attack.<br/> <br />Abe said Japan should do its part to help rid the world of nuclear weapons.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Japanese) JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER, SHINZO ABE, SAYING:<br/> <br />"We, Japanese, are history's sole victims of a nuclear attack during war and we have the certain responsibility to bring about a world without nuclear weapons."<br/> <br />Destruction from the bomb was massive- shock waves, radiation and heat rays took the lives of some 140,000 people... nearly half of the town's population.<br/> <br />The lingering memories of that fateful day still affect even younger generations.<br/> <br />This little girl said she hopes one day there won't be nuclear weapons.<br/> <br />Three days after the attack on Hiroshima, the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb Nagasaki. Japan surrendered to Allied forc
