Obama participates at the opening of the memorial commemorating the victims of US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima in 1945. US attack became the first atomic military bombing in history. The entire city was nearly destroyed, 140,000 killed. A second U.S. nuclear attack three days later on Nagasaki in southern Japan killed 70-thousand more.

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