Amid widespread concern over the current lack of ongoing peace negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union, a California citizen has come up with an interesting idea: Why not, asks Peter Jesella of San Jose, hold talks at the Peace Park at Hiroshima to dramatize the importance of avoiding war and nuclear confrontation in this dangerous age’? Jesella’s idea for nuclear talks at the first of two Japanese cities devastated by World War II atomic bombs has been called to President Reagan’s attention. “We endorse his suggestion and hope you will seriously consider it,” wrote California Democratic Congressmen Norman Y. Mineta and Don Edwards in a letter to the President. Right now the prime goal is getting the stalled negotiations back on track. As a step toward a “meaningful exchange of views,” Mineta and Edwards told Reagan: “We feel it would be appropriate for you to meet Secretary Chernenko and open a face to face dialogue.” Like many other promising ideas, Jesella’s proposal – not completely new – for talks at the Hiroshima Peace Park could get lost in the shuffle. But if and when U.S. and Soviet Union officers get talks rolling again, they ljust could fmd stimulus for accelerating accords by shifting the scene, even if only temporarily, to the stark atmosphere of the Peace Park. Hiroshima, you remember, was the target of a single atomic bomb dropped from a U.S. Army plane Aug. 6, 1945. One source book says almost 130,000 people were killed, injured or missing and 90 percent of the city was devastated. Like Nagasaki – hit by a second A-bomb Aug. 9, prelude to Japan’s Aug, 14 surrender – Hiroshima was rebuilt after the war. But a gutted section was set aside as a “Peace City” or Park as a reminder of the effects of an atomic bomb. The Memorial Shrine and the Atomic Age Museum and Exposition Center also were built there after the war. Since 1955, an annual world conference against nuclear weapons has met at Hiroshima. The destructive power of the two bombs dropped to end World War II was only a fraction of that of today’s nuclear weapons. Any step that will reverse the nuclear amis race and ease intemational tensions is worth taking. And as the two California congressmen observed: “If holding talks at the site of the world’s first wartime use of the atomic bomb will emphasize the need for positive steps for peace, then let us begin such talks.”