U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks as she offers flowers to the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. Pelosi became the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit ground zero of the world’s first atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Japan. Pelosi is in Japan for a two-day meeting of top legislators from the Group of Eight industrialized countries. Russia’s Chairman of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov is seen at back left, and Speaker of Japan’s House of Representatives; Yohei Kono looks on behind her. (AP)