At Hiroshima Memorial, Obama Says Nuclear Arms Require ‘Moral Revolution’

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HIROSHIMA, Japan — President Obama laid a wreath at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial on Friday, telling an audience that included survivors of America’s atomic bombing in 1945 that technology as devastating as nuclear arms demands a “moral revolution.”

Thousands of Japanese lined the route of the presidential motorcade to the memorial in the hopes of glimpsing Mr. Obama, the first sitting American president to visit the most potent symbol of the dawning of the nuclear age. Many watched the ceremony on their cellphones.

“Seventy-one years ago, on a bright cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed,” Mr. Obama said in opening his speech at the memorial.

“Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us,” Mr. Obama said, adding that such technology “requires a moral revolution as well.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/world/asia/obama-hiroshima-japan.html

[bryant.coleman]

This guy is quite thick-skinned. His own people massacred hundreds of thousands of people by using nuclear bombs, and even now he refuses to apologize for it. The United States of America is the only nation in the world, which has used nuclear weapons against civilians. A number of other nations also have nuclear weapons. But they are not that insane to use them against civilians.