This essay was written during the Bush administration.
Rather, as the WSWS noted in a Perspective published earlier this month, Obama will go to Hiroshima not to apologize for past crimes, but to prepare new ones.” The White House has made clear that Obama “will not revisit the decision to use the atomic bomb,” nor will any apology be forthcoming. Today, Barack Obama will be visiting Hiroshima, the first sitting US president to do so since the horrific events of August 1945. This essay was originally published on August 6-8, 2005 on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the dropping of atomic bombs by the US on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
