Obama to Make First Presidential Visit to Hiroshima

U.S. President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will visit Hiroshima late this month, becoming the first U.S. leader to go to the Japanese city where an American warplane dropped the world's first atomic bomb in 1945 near the end of World War II, killing tens of thousands of people. For seven decades, American presidents have avoided visiting Hiroshima, apparently to avoid the impression that such a visit would be seen as an apology for the devastation caused by the atomic blast there and...

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