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Chili Billy.

I am also a horse.

I really value my life, even though I know it's debatable whether I'm even really alive.

The right reading for this is the one I'm giving it.

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From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

Obama, the bomb, and memories of war.

I'm Barbara Bogave, sitting in for Warren Allney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

71 years later, the first sitting U.S. president visits Hiroshima, not to apologize,

but to call attention to the threat nuclear warfare still poses.

Some survivors say it's not enough.

Some war veterans say it's too much, and that dropping the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

was needed to achieve peace quickly.

Does it call for a nuclear-free world ring true when it comes from a

president who's upgrading America's nuclear arsenal and has presided over the nation's longest

wars? We'll look back and ahead. Also, on today's talking point, how the backlash against

waterboarding has inspired a different approach to police interrogations. First News.

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