English subtitles for clip: File:President Obama Visits Hiroshima.webm

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The President: Why do
we come to this place?

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To Hiroshima?

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We come to ponder a terrible
force unleashed in the

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not-so-distant past.

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We are most starkly
reminded of humanity's

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core contradiction.

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How the very spark that
marks us as a species, our

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thoughts, our imagination,
our language, our

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toolmaking, our ability to
set ourselves apart from

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nature, and bend
it to our will.

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Those very things also
give us the capacity for

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unmatched destruction.

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The scientific revolution
that led to the splitting of

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an atom requires a moral
revolution as well.

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Ordinary people
understand this, I think.

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They do not want more war.

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They would rather that
the wonders of science be

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focused on improving life,
and not eliminating it.

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The world was forever
changed here.

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But today, the children of
this city will go through

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their day in peace.

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What a precious
thing that is.

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It is worth protecting, and
then extending to every child.

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That is the future we can
choose -- a future in which

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Hiroshima and Nagasaki are
known not as the dawn of

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atomic warfare, but as the
start

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of our own moral awakening.