Obama to visit Hiroshima

WASHINGTON -- President Obama will be the first U.S. leader to visit Hiroshima, Japan, since the atomic bomb attack of 1945, the White House announced Tuesday.
Obama and Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make the May 27 visit "to highlight his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.

The Hiroshima visit caps a week-long presidential visit to Vietnam and Japan, with the latter country hosting a Group of Seven nations economic summit.
The atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 forced the Japanese surrender that ended World War II.