Hiroshima survivor meets Obama aide, urges end to nuclear weapons

Hiroshima survivor meets Obama aide, urges end to nuclear weapons

Undated photo shows Setsuko Thurlow, an 84-year-old atomic bomb survivor who currently lives in Canada. Thurlow, who experienced the U.S. atomic bombing in Hiroshima at age 13, handed a letter to Ben Rhodes, deputy national security adviser for U.S. President Barack Obama, in Washington on June 6, 2016, calling on the president to make further efforts to abolish nuclear weapons. Obama became the first serving U.S. president to visit Hiroshima on May 27. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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