Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Do Hiroshima Survivors and their Descendants Want Obama to Apologize?
President Obama will be the first U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, Japan on Friday. He’s expected to push for a nuclear-free world while touring the city’s Peace Memorial, but the White House has made it clear that the President will not apologize for the atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readPresident Obama will be the first U.S. President to visit Hiroshima, Japan on Friday. He’s expected to push for a nuclear-free world while touring the city’s Peace Memorial, but the White House has made it clear that the President will not apologize for the atomic bombing of the city on Aug. 6, 1945. The bomb killed 140,000 people, and scores more suffered from the aftereffects of it. The Japanese government seems to be okay with Obama’s decision not to apologize for the actions of the United States more than 70 years ago, but how do the Japanese people and the Hiroshima survivors and their descendants feel?
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The full episode
1 of 5Do the Japanese Want Obama to Apologize for Hiroshima?- 0:00Do Hiroshima Survivors and their Descendants Want Obama to Apologize?You’re reading this
- 10:27What Scientists Have Learned From the Bombing of Hiroshima
- 19:37Peter Thiel, Revenge and Litigation Finance
- 27:34How Joe Gould Lost His Teeth – and His Oral History
- 43:51Northeast Public Transit Problems