My message from Hiroshima

On Saturday, August 6, I proudly stood with Japan’s Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida, and the
people of Hiroshima in memory of an unprecedented catastrophe.

Seventy-seven years ago, nuclear weapons were dropped on the people of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Tens of thousands of women, children and men were killed in the blink of an eye,
incinerated in a hellish fire. Buildings turned to dust. The cities’ beautiful rivers
ran with blood.

Those who survived were cursed with a radioactive legac…