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Video Misrepresents Lasting Effects of Nuclear Bombs Dropped on Japan During World War II

Video Misrepresents Lasting Effects of Nuclear Bombs Dropped on Japan During World War II

The United States dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, killing hundreds of thousands of people to force Japan’s surrender in World War II. A video on social media falsely claims the cities “were never nuked,” reasoning that nuclear bombs would have made those cities “uninhabitable for thousands of years.”