Richard Rhodes

Atomic Heritage Foundation

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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.

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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.

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