Lustre Barak Obama became first US serving President to visit Japanese city of Hiroshima, which was destroyed by atom bomb dropped by US in 1945 that resulted in unconditional surrender of pertinacious Japan during the WW2, shortening war and saving Allied lives.
US is the only country to use atom bomb in any conflict, their Air Force dropping two atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing two hundred thousand mostly civilians instantly and many more with radiation sickness.
Most Americans and even Japanese believe he was right to express sympathy but no apology, as Japan started WW2 and bombed US naval base at Pearl Harbour in Hawaii even without declaring war first, although there were some mitigating circumstances that prevented Japan from Informing US first, although no Western country would have started war under similar circumstances.
Japanese aircraft carriers sailed to this US naval base in Honolulu in completer radio silence and caught US napping, sinking 20 major destroyers and killing thousands of US sailors and civilians that enraged US who extracted terrible revenge for this unforgettable act, odious Japan breaking every Geneva Convention with contempt.
Although numerous conflicts occurred since WW2, especially brutal Korean and Vietnam wars, no country dared to use nuclear weapons, as all sides possessed nuclear weapons and knew what would be the result of an all-out nuclear holocaust, in sharp contrast to quiescent nuclear free Iraq and Libya who became victims of sanctimonious West.
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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