Obama Heads To Hiroshima; Won’t Apologize For US Nuking City

According to White House officials, Obama is going but will absolutely “not apologize.”

Jason Ditz
作者 Jason Ditz
An unidentified man stands next to a tiled fireplace where a house once stood in Hiroshima, Japan, on Sept. 7, 1945. The vast ruin is a result of "Little Boy," the uranium atomic bomb detonated on Aug. 6 by the U.S.

US President Obama is set to become the first US president since WW2 to visit the Japanese city of Hiroshima, and will tour the site of the first nuclear attack on a populated city. The United States launched an atomic bomb against the city on August 6, 1945, killing well over 100,000 people by most estimates. Obama is going but will absolutely

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UN To Review Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty On Eve Of 70th Anniversary Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki

It’s been 70 years since atomic bombs were dropped on Japan, and 45 years since the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty went into effect. An upcoming conference aims to evaluate the NPT, including its strengths and weaknesses.

Sean Nevins
作者 Sean Nevins
The Atomic Bomb Dome is silhouetted at sunset in Hiroshima, western Japan, Monday, Aug. 5, 2013. (Photo: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP)

The Atomic Bomb Dome is silhouetted at sunset in Hiroshima, western Japan,  Monday, Aug. 5, 2013.  (Photo: Shizuo Kambayashi/AP) NEW YORK --- Seventy years ago this coming August, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was sprawled out on his living room floor in Hiroshima at about 8:15 in the morning. He was exhausted, he wrote, because he had stayed up all

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