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Obama To Become First US President To Visit Hiroshima Since 1945 Nuclear Attack (independent.co.uk)
An anonymous reader writes: The White House announced U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima, becoming the first sitting American President to do so since the city was destroyed in 1945 by a U.S. nuclear bomb. President Obama and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit the city on May 27th "to highlight his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement. Obama said he hoped to visit both Hiroshima and Nagasaki when he first visited Japan in November 2009. "The memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are etched in the minds of the world, and I would be honored to have the opportunity to visit those cities at some point during my presidency," President Obama said at the time. At least 140,000 people died from the nuclear attack on Hiroshima on August 9, 1945. Three days later, the U.S. dropped a second atomic weapon on Nagasaki. Japan surrendered to Allied forces within a week after that second attack.
They do, but we don't know it because they're so inscrutable.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Wars are just poor people dying for rich people. Your grandfather fought for nothing. Germany under hitler would have been the greatest empire since Rome. Humans would have been on other planets right now if Hitler's reich didn't get crushed. Both the Axis and the Allies are guilty of war crimes and atrocities. Saying that using nuclear weapons was better than a ground war shows how little you (and most people) know about the destructive power of nuclear weapons.