Remarks at Hiroshima

President Barack Obama will be in Japan this month. While there, he will be the first U.S. President to visit the city of Hiroshima.

Hiroshima was devastated at the end of World War II by the first atomic bomb used in combat.

The city was virtually destroyed. Thousands of Japanese civilians died instantaneously. Thousands more died later of burns and radiation poisoning.

After a second atomic bomb exploded over a second Japanese city, Nagasaki, the Japanese surrendered, and the final phase of World War II ended. This was in 1945.

No sooner had the mushroom cloud dissipated than doubts and regr...