History will definitely NOT be re-enacted at the Hiroshima Peace Day observance in Gough Park on Sunday, August 3. Instead, beginning at 12:30 p.m., members of Gila Friends Meeting (Quaker) invite the public to join them at the pavilion to consider why so many leaders say "Never again!" to nuclear weapons.

August 6 is the 69th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in wartime. Three days after an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, killing 70,000 in a moment, another A-bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing another 20,000. Thousands more have been killed, sterilized or sickened by the long-term effects of the radiation from those two explosions. Most of the casualties have been civilians. Exhibits at the event will show the context and consequences of these two atomic bombings.