President Obama to visit Hiroshima 71 years after disaster
(Baonghean.vn)- Trong khuôn khổ chuyến công du châu Á từ ngày 21 đến 28/5 tới, Tổng thống Mỹ Barack Obama quyết định sẽ tới thăm thành phố Hiroshima. Đây là chuyến thăm chính thức đầu tiên của một Tổng thống Mỹ đương nhiệm tới Hiroshima từ khi thành phố Nhật Bản này hứng chịu quả bom hạt nhân của Mỹ trong Chiến tranh thế giới thứ 2.
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Tổng thống Mỹ Barack Obama. Ảnh: Reuters. |
Thông cáo của Nhà Trắng nêu rõ Tổng thống Obama sẽ tới thành phố Hiroshima cùng với Thủ tướng nước chủ nhà Shinzo Abe khi ông đến Nhật Bản vào cuối tháng 5 này để tham dự Hội nghị thượng đỉnh Nhóm 7 nước công nghiệp phát triển (G7).
White House spokesman Josh Earnest stressed that this activity shows the US leader's commitment to continuing to promote peace and security in a world without nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, Japan's Kyodo news agency, citing the Japanese government, also confirmed the above information, and stated that the US President will arrive in Hiroshima on May 27 after the G7 Summit ends.
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The Japanese flag flies at half-mast in front of the atomic bomb dome at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, western Japan on August 6, 1998. Photo: Reuters. |
Thus, Mr. Obama became the first sitting US President to visit Hiroshima city, which was destroyed by a US atomic bomb on August 6, 1945. Last April, US Secretary of State John Kerry also visited the memorial to the victims of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima.
Previously, US President Jimmy Carter also visited Hiroshima, but only after the end of his presidential term.
The nuclear bomb that changed the world * The bomb, code-named “Little Boy,” and with a destructive power equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT, was dropped on Hiroshima. * Colonel Paul Tibbets, 30 years old from Illinois, was the commander of the operation to drop the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. * The Enola Gay, the plane that carried out the bombing, was named after Colonel Tibbets' mother. * The final target was decided less than an hour before the bomb was dropped. The good weather conditions in Hiroshima were an ominous sign for the city's fate. * When it exploded, the bomb's detonation temperature was several million degrees Celsius. 140,000 people died instantly. * Three days later, the second atomic bomb, codenamed Fat Man, was dropped on the city of Nagasaki, continuing to cause humanitarian disaster in the war. * These two atomic bombs were also part of ending World War II. |
Lan Ha
(According to BBC)
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