Time is becoming Hiroshima¡¯s most urgent problem. The dilemma is quietly measured in a granite structure not far from ground zero and the Atomic Bomb Dome. Known as the Peace Clock, it consists of two digital counters set into a granite pillar in Hiroshima¡¯s Peace Memorial Museum.
Both numbers continue to rise.
Installed in 2001, the Peace Clock was designed not as a memorial to the past, but as a measure of time moving forward. It quietly links Hiroshima¡¯s destruction to the looming threat of nuclear weapons in the present.
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