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Named editors include Richard Hall (The Brief), Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs (Inside TIME), Eliza Berman (Worth Your Time), Philip Elliott (D.C. Brief), Justin Worland (Future Proof) and Harry Booth (In the Loop). Health Matters is written by TIME's health desk. #### How do I sign up for a TIME newsletter? Go to time.com/newsletters, choose the newsletters you want and enter your email address. There is no cost and no subscription requirement. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=d007427c-9d41-48ea-858b-c74395dd94dc&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Obama to Make Historic Hiroshima Visit [Watch (HLS stream): Obama to Make Historic Hiroshima Visit](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/iOnzTOZQ.m3u8) (1:03)  _Published 2016-05-10. President Barack Obama will become the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, Japan_  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:48 PM UTCPublished: May 10, 2016 12:29 PM UTC  by [Katie Reilly](https://time.com/author/katie-reilly/)  ## Katie Reilly Updated: Dec 13, 2023 12:48 PM UTCPublished: May 10, 2016 12:29 PM UTC President Barack Obama will visit Hiroshima, the Japanese city that was devastated in 1945 by an atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. during World War II. “The President will make an historic visit to Hiroshima with \[Japanese\] Prime Minister \[Shinzo\] Abe to highlight his continued commitment to pursuing the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons,” the [White House said in a statement](https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/05/10/statement-press-secretary-presidents-travel-vietnam-and-japan) on Tuesday. Obama, who is traveling to Vietnam and Japan from May 21 to 28, will be the first serving president to visit the city. During his trip to Japan, Obama will participate in his final Group of 7 summit of industrialized nations. Obama has previously spoken about wanting to visit Hiroshima, and Secretary of State John Kerry [visited the city earlier this year](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/12/world/asia/john-kerry-hiroshima-wwii-japan.html), fueling speculation that Obama would visit. “Everyone should visit Hiroshima, and everyone means everyone,” Kerry said at a news conference last month, when asked about a potential visit by the president. ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] Asked a legitimate criticism that the. 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