August 29, 2011
A woman prays after releasing a paper lantern on a river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome Aug. 6, the 66th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing. More than 75,000 people were killed in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the bomb near the end of the Second World War.

CNS PHOTO | KIM KYUNG-HOON, REUTERS

Hiroshima anniversary

A woman prays after releasing a paper lantern on a river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome Aug. 6, the 66th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.

More than 75,000 people were killed in Hiroshima when the United States dropped the bomb near the end of the Second World War.