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The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) was the only structure left standing in the area where the first atomic bomb exploded on 6 August 1945. Through the efforts of many people, including those of the city of Hiroshima, it has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the bombing. Not only is it a stark and powerful symbol of the most destructive force ever created by humankind; it also expresses the hope for world peace and the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons.

In the last three conservation projects (1967, 1989-1990 and 2002-2003), minimum reinforcement with steel and synthetic resin was used in order to preserve the condition of the dome as it was after the atomic bomb attack. The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) stands in its original location and its form, design, materials, substance, and setting are all completely authentic. It also maintains its functional and spiritual authenticity as a place for prayer for world peace and the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons.

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Proportion of A-bomb survivors with symptoms (left) and that of non-A-bomb survivors with symptoms (right) [27]: Left, open circles (Outdoor, in), outdoor A-bomb survivors who entered the central area; filled circles (Outdoor, out), outdoor survivors who did not enter the central area; open squares (indoor, in), indoor survivors who entered the central area; and filled square (indoor, out): indoor survivors who did not enter the central area. Right, red circles (entrant), non-A-bomb survivors who entered the central area and blue circle (non-entrant), non-A-bomb survivors who did not enter the central area

The Omagh bombing was a car bombing on 15 August 1998 in the town of Omagh in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.[6] It was carried out by the Real Irish Republican Army (Real IRA), a Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) splinter group who opposed the IRA's ceasefire and the Good Friday Agreement, signed earlier in the year. The bombing killed 29 people and injured about 220 others,[9] making it the deadliest single incident of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Telephoned warnings which did not specify the actual location had been sent almost forty minutes beforehand but police inadvertently moved people toward the bomb.[10]

The bombing caused outrage both locally and internationally,[8][11] spurred on the Northern Ireland peace process,[3][4][12] and dealt a severe blow to the dissident Irish republican campaign. The Real IRA denied that the bomb was intended to kill civilians and apologised; shortly after, the group declared a ceasefire.[12] The victims included people of many backgrounds and ages: Protestants, Catholics, six teenagers, six children, a woman pregnant with twins, two Spanish tourists[13][14] and others on a day trip from the Republic of Ireland. Both unionists and Irish nationalists were killed and injured. As a result of the bombing, new anti-terrorism laws were swiftly enacted by both the United Kingdom and Ireland.

British, Irish and US intelligence agencies allegedly had information which could have prevented the bombing, most of which came from double agents inside the Real IRA,[15] but this information was not given to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).[15] In 2008, the BBC reported that British intelligence agency GCHQ was monitoring conversations between the bombers as the bomb was being driven into Omagh.[16]

A 2001 report by the Police Ombudsman said that the RUC Special Branch failed to act on prior warnings and criticised the RUC's investigation of the bombing.[17] Police reportedly obtained circumstantial and coincidental evidence against some suspects, but they were unable to convict anyone of the bombing.[18] Colm Murphy was tried and convicted of conspiring to cause the bombing, but was released on appeal after it was revealed that the Garda Sochna forged interview notes used in the case.[19] Murphy's nephew Sean Hoey was also tried but was acquitted.[20] In June 2009, the victims' families won a 1.6 million civil action settlement against four defendants, who were found liable for the bombing.[21] In 2014, Seamus Daly was charged with the murder of 29 people;[22] however, the case against him was withdrawn in 2016.[23]

The Real IRA's tactics were the same as those of the IRA before it. It targeted the British security forces and carried out bombings of symbolic or economic targets. The goal was to damage the economy and cause severe disruption, thereby putting pressure on the British government to withdraw from Northern Ireland.[27] Warnings were sent before such bombings, along with a code word so that the authorities would know it was genuine. The Real IRA began its paramilitary campaign with an attempted car bombing in Banbridge, County Down, on 7 January 1998. The 300 pounds (140 kg) explosive was defused by security forces.[26] Over the following months, it mounted several car bomb and mortar attacks. There were also attacks or attempted attacks in Moira, Portadown, Armagh, Newry, Lisburn, Belfast, and Belleek, as well as another car bombing in Banbridge on 1 August, which caused thirty-five injuries but no deaths.[26]

The Omagh bombing took place thirteen weeks after the Good Friday Agreement of April 1998 was signed. Intended to be a comprehensive solution to the Troubles, the agreement had broad support both in Ireland and internationally.[28][29]

On 13 August, a maroon 1991 Vauxhall Cavalier was stolen from outside a block of flats in Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland.[30] At that time, it bore the County Donegal registration number of 91-DL-2554. The bombers replaced its Republic of Ireland number plates with fake Northern Ireland plates (MDZ 5211), and loaded the car with about 500 pounds (230 kg) of fertiliser-based explosives.[30]

On Saturday 15 August, the bomb car was driven from County Monaghan across the Irish border to Omagh, County Tyrone, travelling north and west. A 'scout car' drove ahead of the bomb car to warn it of any checkpoints, and the two cars were in constant contact by mobile phone.[31] At 14:19, the bomb car was parked outside S.D. Kells' clothes shop on Omagh's Market Street, at the eastern edge of the town centre, near the crossroads with Dublin Road.[14] The driver could not find a parking space near the intended target, Omagh Courthouse.[31] The two male bombers armed the bomb and set the timer to detonate it in forty minutes.[31] They left the car and walked east down Market Street towards Campsie Road, before leaving Omagh in the scout car.[31] A family of Spanish tourists happened to take photos next to the car; the man and child in the photograph survived but the photographer did not.[1]

At around 14:30, three phone calls were made warning of a bomb in Omagh, using the same codeword that had been used in the Real IRA's bombing in Banbridge two weeks earlier: "Martha Pope".[31][32][33] The calls were made from telephone boxes many miles away in southern County Armagh.[32] The first warning was telephoned to Ulster Television saying, "There's a bomb, courthouse, Omagh, main street, 500lb, explosion thirty minutes."[33] One minute later, the office received a second warning saying, "Bomb, Omagh town, fifteen minutes." The caller claimed the warning on behalf of "glaigh na hireann".[33] The next minute, the Coleraine office of the Samaritans received a call stating that a bomb would go off on the "main street" of Omagh "about 200 yards" (180 m) from the courthouse.[33] The recipients passed on the information to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC).[33]

The car bomb exploded at about 15:10 BST in the crowded shopping area.[34] It tore the car into deadly shrapnel and created a fireball and shockwave. People were caught in "a storm" of glass, masonry and metal, as the blast destroyed shop fronts and blew the roofs off buildings. A thick cloud of dust and smoke filled the street. The blast was so strong that it tore up concrete and pipes burst; the water, running down the street, turned red from the blood of dead and wounded people. Within twenty-five minutes journalists were on the street taking pictures. Twenty-one people who had been standing near the bomb were killed outright. Eight more died on the way to or in hospital.[13]

Injured survivor Marion Radford described hearing an "unearthly bang", followed by "an eeriness, a darkness that had just come over the place", then screams as she saw "bits of bodies, limbs" on the ground while she searched for her 16-year-old son, Alan. She later discovered he had been killed yards away from her, after the two became separated minutes before the blast.[30][37]

Because of the stretched emergency services, buses, cars and helicopters were used to take the victims to other hospitals in Northern Ireland,[34][38] including the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast and Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry.[35] A Tyrone County Hospital spokesman stated that they treated 108 casualties, 44 of whom had to be transferred to other hospitals.[38] Paul McCormick of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said, "The injuries are horrific, from amputees, to severe head injuries to serious burns, and among them are women and children."[34] The morning after the bombing, a man was killed when his car collided with an ambulance ferrying bomb victims to hospitals in Belfast.[35]

There was a strong regional and international outcry against 'dissident' republicans and in favour of the Northern Ireland peace process.[3][4] Prime Minister Tony Blair called the bombing an "appalling act of savagery and evil."[8][34] Queen Elizabeth II expressed her sympathies to the victims' families, while the Prince of Wales paid a visit to the town and spoke with the families of some of the victims.[34][41] Pope John Paul II and President Bill Clinton also expressed their sympathies.[35] The Spanish Ambassador to Ireland visited some of the injured.[35]

Social Democratic and Labour Party leader John Hume called the perpetrators of the bombing "undiluted fascists".[43] Sinn Fin's Martin McGuinness said, "This appalling act was carried out by those opposed to the peace process," while Gerry Adams said, "I am totally horrified by this action. I condemn it without any equivocation whatsoever."[11] McGuinness mentioned that both Catholics and Protestants alike were injured and killed, saying, "All of them were suffering together. I think all them were asking the question 'Why?', because so many of them had great expectations, great hopes for the future."[11] Sinn Fin as an organisation initially refused to co-operate with the investigation into the attack because the RUC was involved.[44] On 17 May 2007, McGuinness stated that Irish republicans would co-operate with an independent, international investigation if one were created.[45] e24fc04721