U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima during his stop in Japan, 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.
Obama to Visit Hiroshima
- By VOA News
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In this Aug. 6, 1945 file photo, the "Enola Gay" Boeing B-29 Superfortress lands at Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands after the U.S. atomic bombing mission against the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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An Allied war correspondent stands amid the ruins of Hiroshima, Japan in 1945, just weeks after the city was leveled by an atomic bomb.
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This general view of the city of Hiroshima showing damage wrought by the atomic bomb was taken March 1946, six months after the bomb was dropped August 6, 1945.
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Japanese victims wait to receive first aid in the southern part of Hiroshima, Japan, a few hours after the U.S. atomic bomb exploded in the heart of the city on Aug. 6, 1945. The explosion of the first A-bomb, known as "Little Boy," instantly killed 66,00
