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Pres. Obama visits Hiroshima

President Barack Obama visited Hiroshima today and paid respect to the 140,000 lives killed by the atomic bomb dropped on the city in 1945. He became the first sitting US president to do so. He called for a world without nuclear weapons but did not apologize for the attack.

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Pres. Obama visits Hiroshima

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  1. Pres. Obama visits Hiroshima

  2. US President Barack Obama embraces Shigeaki Mori (front), a survivor of the 1945 nuclear shelling of Hiroshima, amid a visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park on May 27. Obama on May 27 paid moving tribute to casualties of the world's first atomic assault. (JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)

  3. Members of a group, seen through a vehicle window, hold a standard inviting President Barack Obama to Hiroshima, Japan, as his motorcade heads to Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park for a wreath-laying service, May 27. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)

  4. People (L) assemble to watch the entry of US President Barack Obama around Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, May 27. (KIYOSHI OTA/EPA)

  5. U.S. President Barack Obama, right, shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, May 27. (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)

  6. People attempt to get a look at the wreath laid by US President Obama at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park cenotaph in Hiroshima on May 27. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

  7. A kid holding binoculars sits tight for the landing of US President Barack Obama around Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, western Japan, May 27. (KIYOSHI OTA/EPA)

  8. Japanese and outside Journalists watch US President Barack Obama's live address from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park, at the 2016 Ise-Shima G7 Summit International Media Center in Ise city, Mie prefecture on May 27. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)

  9. US President Barack Obama (R) recieves a bow from an understudy (L) at the cenotaph in the Peace Momorial park in Hiroshima on May 27. (TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP/Getty Images)

  10. U.S. President Barack Obama (R) puts his arm around Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe after they laid wreaths before a cenotaph with the nuclear bomb vault is foundation at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan May 27. (Kimimasa Mayama/Pool by means of Reuters)

  11. In this Sept. 8, 1945 document photograph, a unified reporter remains in the rubble before the shell of a building that once was a film theater in Hiroshima, Japan, a month after the primary nuclear bomb ever utilized as a part of fighting was dropped by the U.S. on Aug. 6, 1945. (Stanley Troutman/Associated Press)

  12. US President Barack Obama touches base at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial park cenotaph in Hiroshima on May 27. (JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images)

  13. Bomb survivor Kinuyo Ikegami offers supplications at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, western Japan, May 27. (Shuji Kajiyama/Associated Press)

  14. Left-wing, hostile to government protestors, who contradict President Barack Obama’s up and coming visit, walk before the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, in Hiroshima, Japan, May 26. (Adam Dean/The New York Times)

  15. An nuclear cloud surges, taking after the blast of the principal nuclear bomb to be utilized as a part of fighting in Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. (U.S. Armed force/Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum through Reuters)

  16. Victims of the nuclear bombarding of Hiroshima are dealt with at a crisis help station in the Otagawa River bank in Hiroshima, Japan on August 9, 1945. (/Yotsugi Kawahara/Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by means of Reuters)

  17. A watch halting at 08:15, which is the season of the blast time of the nuclear besieging of Hiroshima, showed at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. The watch had a place with Kengo Nikawa, 59, whic he carried while in transit to house obliteration chip away at August 6. 1945.Hhe was presented to the shelling around 1,600 meter from the hypocenter. Nikawa kicked the bucket 16 days after the shelling. (KIMIMASA MAYAMA/EPA)

  18. The gutted Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, right now known as Atomic Bomb Dome or A-Bomb Dome, is seen after the nuclear bombarding of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945. (U.S. Armed force/Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by means of Reuters)

  19. A 21-year-old warrior, who was presented to the nuclear besieging of Hiroshima and has purple subcutaneous discharge spots on his body, is dealt with at the Ujina Branch of the Hiroshima First Army Hospital in Hiroshima prefecture, Japan on September 3, 1945. (Gonichi Kimura/Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum through Reuters)

  20. Survey colleagues measure remaining radiation in the remnants of Shima Hospital, situated at the hypocenter of the nuclear bombarding of Hiroshima, as Japan Film Corporation staff film them in Saiku-machi locale in Hiroshima, Japan, on October 1945. (Shigeo Hayashi/Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by means of Reuters)

  21. Survey colleagues present before the extensive torii door on the way to deal with Hiroshima Gokoku Shrine after the nuclear bombarding of Hiroshima, in Moto-machi locale in Hiroshima, Japan on October 1945. (Shigeo Hayashi/Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum by means of Reuters)

  22. An ethereal perspective after the primary nuclear blast at the Trinity Test site, in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Inhabitants of Tularosa, a memorable Hispanic town situated beside the Trinity Test site, are adulating President Obama's visit Hiroshima. Nonetheless, they likewise need Obama to visit their town where they say eras of relatives have experienced different diseases and wellbeing issues coming about because of the Trinity Test in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. (Related Press)

  23. Guided by then-Hiroshima Mayor Takeshi Araki, previous President Jimmy Carter conveys a wreath to put at the commemoration cenotaph, a landmark that contains the names of the individuals who kicked the bucket in the 1945 nuclear bombarding of Hiroshima, western Japan on May 25, 1984. (Katsumi Kasahara/Associated Press)

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