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Pelosi Pays Tribute to Hiroshima Victims

HeadlineSep 03, 2008

In Japan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Hiroshima on Tuesday to pay tribute to the victims of the US atomic bombing sixty-three years ago. Pelosi becomes the highest-ranking US official to pay their respects to the victims since former President Jimmy Carter’s visit in 1984. The atomic bomb killed around half of Hiroshima’s population of 350,000.

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