71 Years After First Atomic Strike, Obama Calls For End Of Nuclear Weapons

Nearly 71 years after an American bomber passed high above this Japanese city on a clear August morning for a mission that would alter history, President Obama on Friday called for an end to nuclear weapons in a solemn visit to Hiroshima to offer respects to the victims of the world's first deployed atomic bomb.

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