President Obama To Visit Hiroshima in May

The White House announced on Tuesday that President Barack Obama would visit Hiroshima in May when he is in Japan for the G-7 summit. Obama will be the first president to do so. News reports say he is not there to offer an apology, but to lay out a vision of a world without nuclear weapons. It is also worth remembering that Mr. Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 for, among other things, promoting nuclear nonproliferation.

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