Needing just a draw to be crowned world champions in the final game of the tournament, Brazil lost 2-1 to Uruguay and missed out on a first World Cup triumph -- an event referred to by playwright Nelson Rodrigues as "our Hiroshima".

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Kure, a grimy shipbuilding town down the coast from Hiroshima, was home to the Imperial Naval Academy (still an officer school).

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The first two days of the event will take place in Hiroshima, where participants will have the opportunity to visit the peace museum and to talk to atomic bomb survivors, and the other days in Etajima, an island about 30 minutes from Hiroshima.

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As they waited to disembark in India, Mr Davies heard on the radio that an atom bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima in Japan.

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