President Obama to visit Hiroshima

Sexer · 2016-05-10T12:21:13+00:00

US President Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month - the first serving president to travel to the Japanese city, which was hit by a US nuclear attack in 1945. The visit will be part of an Asian trip that will also take in Vietnam. The Hiroshima bombing on 6 August 1945 killed 140,000 people. Along with a second bombing on Nagasaki - it is credited with ending World War Two. Jimmy Carter has visited Hiroshima, but after the end of his presidency. A statement from Mr Obama's press secretary read: "The President will make an historic visit to Hiroshima with Prime Minister [Shinzo] Abe to highlight his continued commitment to pursuing peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons." The president's communications adviser, Ben Rhodes, said Mr Obama would not revisit the use of the atomic bomb in World War Two but would "offer a forward-looking vision focused on our shared future". Mr Obama will also take part in the G7 summit in Japan's Ise-Shima peninsula.

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Start date May 10, 2016

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