Facing a nuclear past, not fixing a post-nuclear future: Editorial

Posted on AllSides May 27th, 2016
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The president has long been drawn to the ideal of a world without atomic weapons. His trip to Japan will encourage the vision, but the gritty realpolitik of the region renders it a distant dream.

What Barack Obama will see, when on Friday he becomes the first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima, is a large esplanade lined with trees, with a cenotaph monument to the victims of the A-bomb, with the words: “the error of the past will not be repeated”. In the memorial park, he will see the...

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