A candlelight peace walk to downtown’s Naga­saki Peace Bell, slated for Aug. 9, will commemorate the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Naga­saki as well as express gratitude for nearly seven subsequent decades without nuclear bomb explosions.

The walk will start at 5 p.m. with a lantern-lighting service at the Honpa Hongwanji Hawaii Betsuin temple, 1727 Pali Highway, and end at about 7 p.m. at the Peace Bell Memorial at the Hono­lulu Civic Center on South Bere­ta­nia Street. Anyone unable to participate in the walk may meet the group at the peace bell for a short service and bell-ringing.

The event will also feature a screening of "GATE: The Atomic Flame" at 3 p.m. in the temple’s lounge. The film tells of three Buddhist monks who nine years ago made a 1,600-mile pilgrimage to Trinity, N.M., to return the atomic flame, which had burned continuously at a memorial site between Hiro­shima and Naga­saki.

Trinity is considered the birthplace of the atomic bombs that decimated Hiro­shima and Naga­saki in 1945. The symbolic gesture tied to the flame’s return to New Mexico was to close the cycle of nuclear destruction and usher in a new cycle on nuclear disarmament. For additional information about the event, call 348-4399.