Courtesy Hiroshima Peace Museum

Hiroshima in four poems

World

Japanese survivors and other poets give different perspectives on the August 6, 1945 bombing of Hiroshima, which killed about 140,000 people. President Obama is the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima.

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