US president Barack Obama is set to make a historic visit to Hiroshima later this month, making him the first sitting US president to do so. The White House, however, said that Obama will not make an apology for the controversial US attack on the Japanese city. In 1945, the US military dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing around 140,000 people. It later dropped a plutonium bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing some 74,000 people. The White House said Obama will be accompanied by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on May 27 for the visit, which it described as an effort to stress the US commitment “to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”
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