Američki predsjednik Barack Obama je objavio da će posjetiti Hirošimu krajem mjeseca. čime će postati prvi američki lider koji odlazi u japanski grad na koji je američki bombarder bacio prvu u svijetu atomsku bombu, u augustu 1945, pred kraj Drugog svjetskog rata, ubivši desetke hiljada ljudi.
Obama ide u Hirošimu

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Picture dated 1948 showing children wearing masks to protect themselves from irradiation in the devastated city of Hiroshima after the US nuclear bombing on August 6, 1945.

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A boy looks at a huge photograph showing Hiroshima city after the 1945 atomic bombing, at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, Japan, August 6, 2007.

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A student participates in a peace rally to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombings of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in Mumbai, August 6, 2013.

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People release paper lanterns on the Motoyasu river facing the gutted Atomic Bomb Dome in remembrance of atomic bomb victims on the 69th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 2014.