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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Picture dated 1948 showing children wearing masks to protect themselves from irradiation in the devastated city of Hiroshima after the US nuclear bombing on August 6, 1945.
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A boy looks at a huge photograph showing Hiroshima city after the 1945 atomic bombing, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan, August 6, 2007.
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A student participates in a peace rally to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Mumbai, August 6, 2013.
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People release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 2014.
