Obama’s historic trip to Hiroshima - President Barack Obama on May

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President Barack Obama on May 27, 2016 arrived in Hiroshima, the first visit by a sitting US president to the site of the world's first atomic bombing.

In This Pic : Shinzo Abe, Barack Obama

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"Seventy-one years ago on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed," Obama said at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. He was being accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Obama flew into the Iwakuni US base, some 40 kilometres from Hiroshima, after leaving the G7 summit. "A flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city, and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself."

In This Pic : Barack Obama

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At least 140,000 people were killed in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, in what was the world's first nuclear bombing. Two days later a second nuclear bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing another 74,000.

In This Pic : Barack Obama

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Obama's remarks expressed sadness and regret but stopped short of an apology. They came after he laid a wreath on the cenotaph bearing an inscription in Japanese: "Let all the souls here rest in peace; for we shall not repeat the evil."

In This Pic : Barack Obama

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"Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder the terrible force unleashed in the not so distant past. We come to mourn the dead," Obama said.

In This Pic : Shinzo Abe, Barack Obama

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