Obama uses Hiroshima visit as opportunity to urge no nukes

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - With an unflinching look back at a painful history, President Barack Obama stood on the hallowed ground of Hiroshima on Friday and declared it a fitting place to summon people everywhere to embrace the vision of a world without nuclear weapons. As the first American president to visit the city where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb, Obama came to acknowledge - but not apologize for - an act many Americans see as a justified end to a brutal war that Japan started with a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor.

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The human cost of atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was worth paying

Despite the terrifying toll of the first atom bombs, not dropping it would have cost more lives.

I’ve lately had cause to remember what for me and countless others was one of the most unforgettable moments of our lives. This came on August 6 1945, when we heard the quite unbelievable news that a whole city in faraway Japan had been destroyed in a flash, by a single, mysterious new kind of bomb, infinitely more powerful than anything the world had known before.

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