Ring the International Friendship Bell

Duration:

18 seconds

Virtually Ring the International Friendship Bell in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

 

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The International Friendship Bell symbolizes peace and reconciliation between the United States and Japan. At nearly seven feet tall and five feet wide, this 8,300-pound bronze bell hangs at A. K. Bissell Park in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the uranium for the world’s first atomic weapons was manufactured. Designed in Oak Ridge and cast in Kyoto, Japan, the relief panels on the bell show peaceful imagery inspired by Tennessee, Japan, and the tragedies of war between the two nations.