Why Canada should pay attention to Obama’s historic Hiroshima visit this week

He’s going to plead for the elimination of nuclear weapons while his own country jumps into a new era of nuclear weaponry. Does that make sense?

U.S. President Barack Obama listens to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during Mr. Abe's state visit to Washington, D.C. in April 2015. Mr. Obama is set this week to be the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima, hit by a U.S. atomic bomb during the Second World War.White House photograph by Pete Souza

Opinion

BY DOUGLAS ROCHE

May 25, 2016

United States President Barack Obama’s visit to Hiroshima May 27 hits a special nerve with me because I am an honorary citizen of Hiroshima. In 2010, Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba conferred this honour on me for my work through the years on nuclear disarmament. I was 16 when the first atomic bo...

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