Nagasaki National Peace Memorial Hall for the Atomic Bomb Victims was opened in 2002 near the Atomic Bomb Museum and Peace Park.

Nuclear strikes on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the only facts in the history of the combat use of nuclear weapons. The bombings were committed by US Air Force pilots 6 and 9 August 1945. On the morning of August 9th Nagasaki bomb was dropped "Fat Man." The aim of these attacks was to accelerate the process of Japan's surrender in World War II. When selecting the cities as targets considered as Kyoto, Yokohama, Niigata and Kokura - largest port, industrial city and center of military industry and the deployment of military warehouses.

Japan surrendered on August 15, a week after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 150 to 250 thousand people. The act of surrender was signed on September 2.

Memorial Hall in Nagasaki was built as a place in which to pray for the victims of the atomic bomb, as well as a reminder of the terrible threat to humanity by nuclear weapons. Memorial is also involved in the international exchange and dissemination of information in the field of the treatment of people affected by radiation.

The memorial was designed by architect Akira smoke in just two years - the work was done from November 2000 to December 2002. The ground floor housed a conference room, in front of the monitors that show pictures of the many victims of the tragedy. In the hall of memory installed 12 pillars, which symbolize the hope for peace.

Documents and evidence of bombardment from the funds of the memorial hall are exhibited in other museums around the world. The 60th anniversary of the bombing in 2005, the exhibition was held at the Museum of World Chicago. And in 2007, the exhibition saw the inhabitants of the Spanish city of Guernica, which was destroyed by the Nazi air strikes in 1937.