TOPSHOT - (L to R) Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, US Secretary of State John Kerry, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and Canada's Foreign Minister Stephane Dion offer a silent prayer at the Memorial Cenotaph for the 1945 atomic bombing victims in the Peace Memorial Park, on the sidelines of the G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Hiroshima on April 11, 2016. Kerry and other G7 foreign ministers made the landmark visit on April 11 to the memorial site for the world's first nuclear attack in Hiroshima. / AFP PHOTO / POOL / Kazuhiro NOGI
HIROSHIMA, Japan: John Kerry said Monday he was “deeply moved” by his unprecedented visit to the Hiroshima atomic bomb memorial -- and urged President Barack Obama also to make the trip.
The US secretary of state, who was joined by other G7 foreign ministers, is the highest-ranking administration official to pay respects at the spot where American planes launched the first-ever nuclear attack more than seven decades ago.
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