Obama in Hiroshima: We Must 'Look Directly in the Eye of History'

"We come to ponder the terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past," President Barack Obama said at the Japanese city of Hiroshima where the an American warplane dropped the world's first atomic bomb on August 6, 1945 during World War II. Obama became the first sitting U.S. president Friday to visit the city. "We come to mourn the dead," the U.S. leader said after he and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe each placed a wreath at the Peace...

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