Japan: A young Japanese boy standing at attention after having brought his dead younger brother for cremation Nagasaki, 1945

The United States, with the consent of the United Kingdom as laid down in the Quebec Agreement, dropped nuclear weapons on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, during the final stage of World War II.

The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history.

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Joe O'Donnell

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