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Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, welcome back to Nova After Dark. I’m your host, and boy do I have a historical moment for you tonight that’ll really make you think about what it means to lead a nation—and I mean that in the best way, not the way your uncle means it at Thanksgiving. So, May 2016. Barack Obama becomes the first sitting U.S. President to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The first president. In 2016. Which means for 240 years, we had this beautiful opportunity to go to the site of the atomic bombing and say, “Yeah, we’re gonna skip this one.” It’s like having a family reunion at your ex’s house and finally showing up—except the stakes are, you know, slightly higher than awkward small talk. ...