Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic: Obama’s Historic Hiroshima Visit
The president is the first sitting American leader to make a trip to the city that was bombed by the U.S. with a nuclear device.
President Obama became the first sitting American leader to make a trip to Hiroshima, the Japanese city bombed by the U.S. with an atomic device in 1945, and called for a “moral revolution” to accompany technology such as nuclear weapons.
“Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us,” Obama said in a speech after a ceremony at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. “The scientific revolution that led to the splitting of an atom requires a moral revolution as well.”
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 27, 2016
Who wrote Obama's Hiroshima speech? -- Julian Borger, The Guardian
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Moral Necessity -- George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
For Japanese, Obama's Hiroshima visit is historic – but complicated -- Roland Kelts, CSM
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The Mansour Killing Raises as Many Questions as Answers in Afghanistan -- Steven Metz, WPR
America's Doomed China Strategy -- Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest
Is North Korea nuclear state? -- Bruce E. Bechtol Jr., Korea Times
China And Japan On A Collision Course With The US -- Panos Mourdoukoutas, Forbes
How Russia Engineers Its New Patriotism -- Samuel Bendett, Real Clear World/DW
Russia and Saudi Arabia Are Headed for a Showdown -- Nikolay Pakhomov, National Interest
Freed by Russia, Ukraine's 'Joan of Arc' may prove thorn in own leaders' side -- Pavel Polityuk, Reuters
Releasing Nadia Savchenko Is Putin's Poisoned Gift to Kiev -- Russia Insider
Central Banks Can't Go It Alone Anymore -- Mohamed A. El-Erian, Bloomberg
For the record: Stephen Harper’s lasting legacy -- MaCleans
Peter Thiel’s mission to destroy Gawker isn’t ‘philanthropy’. It’s a chilling taste of things to come -- Marina Hyde, The Gaurdian
