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Might Obama one day visit Hiroshima?

Thomas C. Fox  |  Aug. 4, 2009 NCR Today

President Obama has said that ridding the world of nuclear weapons [1]is the greatest task of the 21st century.

Now a Japanese family with the name of Shinzeki could conceivably be the means by which Obama could visit Hiroshima, the site of the first U.S. atomic bomb blast on Aug. 6, 1945. No U.S. president has ever visited Hiroshima.
Here is how the invitation could play out [2] from local Japanese citizen into the Obama administration.


Source URL (retrieved on 05/18/2013 - 23:16): http://ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/might-obama-one-day-visit-hiroshima

Links:
[1] http://ncronline.org/news/peace/world-without-nukes
[2] http://mdn.mainichi.jp/features/hibakusha/news/20090804p2a00m0na022000c.html