US President Joe Biden does not intend to apologize from the United States for the bombing of Hiroshima. The G7 leaders arrived in the city to pay tribute to history and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.

Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died, and many local residents have been dying for decades from exposure to radiation. The U.S. launched nuclear strikes against Japan on August 6 and 9, 1945, and the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed.