Obama will be first sitting U.S. president to visit the bombed Japanese city.President Barack Obama will become the first sitting American president to visit the site of the U.S. atomic bomb attack in Hiroshima, Japan, the White House said Tuesday, a charged final-year stop meant to advance his goal of nuclear disarmament. Added to the end of a late-May Asia swing, the visit fulfills a wish Obama expressed early in his presidency to visit the location where tens of thousands of Japanese civilians were killed in a nuclear blast at the end of World War II. CNN
U.S. President Barack Obama will make history as the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, but he will not apologize for the World War Two bombing.