President Obama Visits Hiroshima

Daily Mail: An embrace for Hiroshima survivor... but no apology: Obama calls for a world without nuclear arms as he becomes the first serving US president to visit site of atomic bomb attack that killed 140,000

* A US B-29 bomber dropped 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima at 8.15am on August 6, 1945 devastating the coastal city
* President Obama did not apologize for the attack while emphasizing a 'shared responsibility' by countries with nuclear stockpiles to 'curb such suffering' from ever happening again
* He said the attack in August 1945 'demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself'
* Washington and Tokyo want today's historic gesture to restart the effort on international nuclear disarmament

President Barack Obama embraced a survivor of Hiroshima today - but stopped short of an apology for the United States dropping an atomic bomb on the city.

The U.S. president declared that the world has a 'shared responsibility' to review history and 'curb such suffering' from happening, as it did on August 6, 1945, when 140,000 residents of Hiroshima died when the town was leveled.

'Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima?' he asked. 'We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in the not so distant past. We come to mourn the dead.'

Obama solemnly reflected on the world's first atomic strike and said, 'We stand here in the middle of this city and force ourselves to imagine the moment the bomb fell. We force ourselves to feel the dread of children confused by what they see. We listen to a silent cry. We remember all the innocents killed across the arc of that terrible war.'

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