The United States dropped the bullets after obtaining the consent of the United Kingdom, as obligatory by the Quebec Contract.

On August 6, one of its B-29s dropped a Little Boy U gun-type bomb on Hiroshima.

The bombs directly devastated their boards. Over the next two to four calendar month, the acute effects of the atomic intimidations killed 90,000–146,000 people in Hiroshima.

The base was designed to propose two hands pressed together at the wrist and bent back so that the palms point up to the sky. It expresses condolence for wounded unable to content their thirst for water, as well as the desire for atomic abolition and lasting world peace.

The flame has burned unceasingly since it was lit on August 1, 1964. It represents the anti-nuclear resolve to burn the flame “until the day when all such arms shall have vanished from the earth.”

In the Flame of Peace Electrical relay held each year, legislatures of each public run through the cities, towns and villages of Hiroshima region in an appeal for the elimination of nuclear weapons and improvement of survivor help. It is used to light other flames as a symbol of peace in numerous events. In 1994, it lit the flame of the Asian Sports held in Hiroshima City.