Hiroshima resets 'peace clock'

Hiroshima resets 'peace clock'

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Kenji Shiga, director of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, looks at a "peace clock" monument on Aug. 21, 2013, at the museum in the city of Hiroshima, which counts the number of days since the last nuclear test. It showed "98" after it was reset the same day as the city learned of a U.S. experiment in May using plutonium to examine the capabilities of nuclear weapons.

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