--- title: Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima | TIME description: President Barack Obama on Friday visited Hiroshima, the first city in history to be targeted with a nuclear bomb, becoming the first sitting President to do so more than seven decades after the attack. canonical: https://time.com/video/aDFYp3nY/ og:title: Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima og:description: President Barack Obama on Friday visited Hiroshima, the first city in history to be targeted with a nuclear bomb, becoming the first sitting President to do so more than seven decades after the attack. og:url: https://time.com/video/aDFYp3nY/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/aDFYp3nY/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima twitter:description: President Barack Obama on Friday visited Hiroshima, the first city in history to be targeted with a nuclear bomb, becoming the first sitting President to do so more than seven decades after the attack. twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/aDFYp3nY/poster.jpg?width=720 --- # Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima ## Video: Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima [Watch (HLS stream): Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/aDFYp3nY.m3u8) (1:44)  _Published 2016-05-27. President Barack Obama on Friday visited Hiroshima, the first city in history to be targeted with a nuclear bomb, becoming the first sitting President to do so more than seven decades after the attack._ --- Jul 27, 2023 8:10 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Hiroshima Marks the 74th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing](/video/P0Y5VeEW/) ### Hiroshima Marks the 74th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing [Obama to Make Historic Hiroshima Visit](/video/iOnzTOZQ/) ### Obama to Make Historic Hiroshima Visit [John Kerry Visits Hiroshima Memorial](/video/no07VqKn/) ### John Kerry Visits Hiroshima Memorial --- ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Obama Makes Historic Visit to Hiroshima","description":"President Barack Obama on Friday visited Hiroshima, the first city in history to be targeted with a nuclear bomb, becoming the first sitting President to do so more than seven decades after the attack.\n","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/aDFYp3nY/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2016-05-27T12:47:18.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/aDFYp3nY.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/aDFYp3nY/","duration":"PT1M44S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/aDFYp3nY/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```