Hiroshima Peace Memorial

Obama Becomes First U.S. President to Visit Hiroshima Bomb Site

Question: Who is the first American president to pay homage at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial?
(a) Barak Obama
(b) Bill Clinton
(c) George W. Bush
(d) Truman
Ans:(a)
Related facts:

  • On 27 May 2016 US President Barack Obama paid homage at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial during his historic visit to Japan.
  • He became the first sitting US president to visit the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack.
  • The official trip of US President Barack Obama comes more than 71 years after an American plane dropped nuclear bomb.
  • It should be known that Barack Obama was on a visit to Japan from 26 May 2016 to 27 May 2016 to met with the other leaders of the G-7 in Ise-Shima, Japan
  • US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan during World War II.
  • The first bombing dubbed ‘Little Boy’ was done at Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, claimed the lives of 140,000 people.
  • Three days later (On 9 August 1945) US dropped a second bomb dubbed as ‘Fat Man’ on the city of Nagasaki in which 70,000 more people were killed.

Reference:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/27/remarks-president-obama-and-prime-minister-abe-japan-hiroshima-peace
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/775
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-visits-hiroshima-more-than-seven-decades-after-the-worlds-first-atomic-strike/2016/05/27/c7d0d250-23b6-11e6-8690-f14ca9de2972_story.html