President Barack Obama has arrived at Japan’s Hiroshima Peace Memorial, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site of the first nuclear bombing.
Obama will deliver remarks, and he previewed his message to the world during a press conference Thursday at the G-7 Summit.
The president, who is not expected to apologize for the American action to hasten the end of World War II, said he would stress the “very real risks” of nuclear weapons and he called the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima an “inflection point in modern history" that still weighs heavily on everyone more than 70 years later.
Obama’s visit to the site of the devastation that left tens of thousands dead was at least six years in the making inside the White House. Japanese officials had initially discouraged the President from coming, but the final ground was paved by Secretary of State John Kerry, who visited the memorial and museum in April and impressed the Japanese with his remarks.
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