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President lays flowers at memorial in Japanese city where U.S. killed 140,000 people in world’s first atomic bombing Barack Obama has become the first sitting U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, 71 years after the Japanese city became the target of the world’s first atomic bombing and ushered in a nuclear age he has vowed to bring to an end. In a scene many survivors of the U.S. bombing believed they would never live to see, Obama laid flowers at a memorial to the dead before paying tribute to the people of Hiroshima and calling on humanity to learn the lessons of the past to make war less likely. [Read more].

• Justin McCurry, Barack Obama says memory of Hiroshima “must never fade”, The Guardian, May 27, 2016

Barack Obama lays a wreath in Hiroshima
Photo: Shuji Kajiyama/AP