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May 11, 2016

Obama to Become 1st Sitting U.S. President to Visit Hiroshima
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President Obama will become the first serving U.S. president to visit
Hiroshima in Japan later this month. The White House said Obama will not
apologize for dropping an atomic bomb on the city toward the end of the
Second World War. The attack on August 6, 1945, caused massive and
widespread destruction. Shock waves, radiation and heat rays took the
lives of some 140,000 people. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a
second atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing another
74,000 people. Obama is expected to tour the site of the world's first
nuclear attack with Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe. We'll have more
on the visit after headlines.
Topics:Obama Hiroshima Nuclear Weapons