Just before President Obama's historic May 27th visit to Hiroshima, we asked why an apology would be out of the question? Could Obama not apologize on humanitarian grounds for the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki while saving face politically? Many disarmament groups, including Beyond Nuclear, also clamored for Obama to renounce his administration's decision to spend $1 trillion over the next 30 years on "refurbishing" and upgrading the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal. Obama's Hiroshima speech eloquently expressed compassion and the desire to "pursue a world without" nuclear weapons, but there was no immediate announcement on meaningful arms reductions.  Read our provocative piece, which appeared in The Ecologist, Counterpunch and Truthout.