President Obama, during his trip to Japan, visited the city of Hiroshima early this morning [Friday, May 27] where the United States dropped the first nuclear bomb in World War II.
Obama is the first President to visit Hiroshima since the bomb was dropped and it killed over 100,000 people.
He laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial this morning, met with several survivors of the attack, and spoke about how nuclear weapons changed the course of world history.
President Obama said that:
“Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us, [and such technology] requires a moral revolution as well.”
Obama stated before his trip he would not apologize for the attacks, but instead would focus on speaking out against nuclear warfare. The President will not be visiting Nagisaki, the city where the second atomic bomb was dropped. You can listen to the President’s full speech below, in a tweet sent out by The White House.
"We are not bound … to repeat the mistakes of the past. We can learn. We can choose." —@POTUS speaks at Hiroshima. https://t.co/qLPoNEqlF9
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) May 27, 2016
