Brave new world.
Via CNN:
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.
Weighing the visit, White House officials faced questions on whether Obama’s presence would amount to an apology for using nuclear weapons, a move many historians consider essential to ending the war.