President Barack Obama has made history by becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima since the World War II nuclear attack on 6 August 1945. According to report, president Obama visited Hiroshima on Friday, May 27 and during his speech at the city’s Peace Memorial Park, he appealed to the world to live without nuclear weapons. President Obama was accompanied by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to visit the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and also Peace Memorial Park. He equally spoke to two survivors (Sunao Tsuboi, 91 years and 79-year-old Shigeaki Mori) of the world’s first nuclear bombings and hugged Shigeaki Mori.
Not less than 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and 74,000 three days later in a second bombing in Nagasaki.
Source: Viewers Corner News.