Barack Obama has become the first sitting US president to confront the consequences of using an atomic bomb as he visited Hiroshima to remember its dead and demand a world free from nuclear weapons.
With the skeleton of Hiroshima’s A-Bomb Dome in front of him, Mr Obama laid a wreath in memory of at least 80,000 people who died when the US became the first and only country to use an atomic bomb, on August 6 1945.
The US president made clear he was not apologising. Just ahead of his Hiroshima visit, addressing troops at a US Marine Corps base near Hiroshima — choreography intended to show strength as well as sorrow — he said the visit was an “opportunity to honour the memory of all who were lost in World War Two”.
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