Barack Obama visits Hiroshima
Nearly 71 years after August 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, US President Obama visited the Japanese city that is the living symbol of why the world must do away with its nuclear arsenal.
Nearly 71 years after August 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, US President Obama visited the Japanese city that is the living symbol of why the world must do away with its nuclear arsenal.
Nearly 71 years after August 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, US President Obama visited the Japanese city that is the living symbol of why the world must do away with its nuclear arsenal. He wrote in the Peace Park guest book - “We have known the agony of war. Let us now find the courage, together, to spread peace, and pursue a world without nuclear weapons.”
He also said - “The world was forever changed here. But today, the children of this city will go through their day in peace. What a precious thing that is. It is worth protecting, and then extending to every child. That is the future we can choose, a future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki are known not for the dawn of atomic warfare but as the start of our own moral awakening.”
Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, a second US atomic bomb had hit Nagasaki. A total of 80,000, including an additional 30,000 Koreans were killed. Most were civilians. Obama visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and laid a wreath at the cenotaph, which commemorates the victims of the atomic bomb.
