It’s still important to recognize that there’s only one country in the world that’s ever used nuclear weapons in war, and that’s the United States of America. That fact is still relevant today when, for example, US officials draw lines about which countries should or should not be permitted to possess nuclear weapons. An Obama visit to Hiroshima, more than decades of START accords with Russia, would telescope to the world that an American president understands that reality, even as the work of non-proliferation continues into its eighth post-Hiroshima decade.
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