Obama visits Hiroshima.

• Position: TIME PAST 1941 - Hiroshima, Japan - Brief article

It was an extraordinary scene: President Obama, leader of the nation that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima seven decades ago, embracing survivors of that attack in Hiroshima itself.

In May, Obama laid a wreath and delivered impassioned words at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial. He said "mankind possessed the means to destroy itself" and must undertake a "moral revolution" to ensure atomic bombs aren't used again.

Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, didn't apologize for the bombing, which ushered in the atomic age and the dread it posed for humanity's future. Whether the U.S. should have dropped the bomb on Hiroshima and on a second Japanese city, Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 Japanese civilians in total, remains a matter of fierce debate. Critics say far too many innocent lives were lost. Supporters argue the bombings saved the lives...