Alex recalls Hiroshima as one of the Japan trip's busiest sites, with visitors from around the world. He objects to debating whether the bombs should have been used while standing among exhibits and visitors who may have family connections to the victims. The alternative raised in that conversation was that, without wartime use, the destructive reality of nuclear weapons might first have become clear in Korea. A marked stone, described as bearing the trace of a person beside it during the blast, gives the objection a specific physical setting.
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Why place matters when discussing Hiroshima
A recollection of the Hiroshima museum connects exhibits and visitors' possible family ties to an objection to debating nuclear-use counterfactuals inside it.