[20160519]IF10395_总统对广岛的访问.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated May 19, 2016A Presidential Visit to HiroshimaOverview On May 10, the White House announced that President Obama will visit Hiroshima when he travels to Japan for the May 26-27 G-7 summit, becoming the first sitting U.S. president to visit the city. In the closing days of World War II, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing an estimated 200,000 people, about half of whom died immediately. The bombings were the two and only times that nuclear weapons have been used in war. On August 15, 1945, six days after the Nagasaki bombing, Japan surrendered to Allied Forces. A visit to Hiroshima allows President Obama to return to the issue of nuclear disarmament that he broached in the early months of his Administration. In a speech in Prague in April 2009, he pledged to pursue an agenda that would reduce nuclear dangers and lead, in the future, to the worldwide elimination of nuclear weapons. The Norwegian Nobel Committee in 2009 awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize due in part to his advocacy for a world free of nuclear weapons. During a visit to Japan in 2009, Obama was quoted by a reporter as say