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Richard Rhodes

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Board member of the Atomic Heritage Foundation and author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb 

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Seventy-one years later, the first sitting US President visits Hiroshima, not to apologize, but to call attention to the threat nuclear warfare still poses.

Obama, the Bomb and Memories of War

Seventy-one years later, the first sitting US President visits Hiroshima, not to apologize, but to call attention to the threat nuclear warfare still poses.

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