Hiroshima: US President Joe Biden visited a museum dedicated to the devastation caused by the US atomic bomb in 1945 during World War II and pledged to strive for a world free of nuclear weapons. Biden is the second US president after Barack Obama to visit Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first nuclear attack. A Japanese news agency reported on Saturday that Biden and other G-7 leaders visited the Hiroshima ‘Peace Memorial Museum’.
Leaders of other G7 member countries including Britain, France also reached there along with Joe Biden. “May the stories in this museum remind us all of our responsibilities to build a peaceful future,” Biden wrote in the museum’s guest book. And make the world free of nuclear weapons forever. Believe it will happen.” The museum displays the belongings of the victims, photographs and other materials, which depict the horrors of the American atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. This attack is estimated to have killed 140,000 people by the end of 1945.
On August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki in southwestern Japan and Japan surrendered six days later, ending World War II. After leaving the museum, Biden did not make any statement in the garden (in the park). He participated in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Memorial for the Atomic Bomb Victims in the garden along with other G-7 leaders.
Meanwhile, First Lady Jill Biden wrote in the museum’s guest book, “On the occasion of the G-7 as we gather to continue building a peaceful and free world…this museum reminds us of our purpose.” . Thank you for the warm welcome.” Former US President Barack Obama had visited the museum in Hiroshima in 2016 on the sidelines of the G-7 summit.
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