US won't offer an apology for nuclear strike, says White House

Joe Biden is visiting Hiroshima during the G7 summit hosted by Japan. He will attend as one of the G7 leaders to pay respects to both history and the hometown of Japanese PM Fumio Kishida. The US dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in August 1945, but critics have argued the bombings were unnecessary. Biden will pay respects to the lives of the innocents killed in the bombing, but the G7 trip is about the future. He had planned to follow up with a trip to Papua New Guinea, but this was scrapped due to the ongoing standoff with Congress about the US national debt.