It Is Time To Engage In Nuclear Disarmament, President Obama

(From Paul Quilès, Former Defense Minister of France and chairman of IDN Initiatives for Nuclear Disarmament.) To The President of the United States,

As the first US president to visit Hiroshima, ground zero, you will make history for your nation. But you will also make history for humanity. You’re right to let historians debate the merits of President Harry Truman’s decision to use the atomic bomb, since, as it stands, we cannot rewrite the past. However, you still hold the keys to the debate on the relevance and dangers of...