Sorry, it’s worse.

  • 68,000 was the official US count in 1945.
  • 140,000 is the usual estimate.
  • But the official Hiroshima list currently counts 269,446, including extra cancer deaths since the bomb, continuing to this day.
  • WWII was already ending when the US used the unnecessary bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to demonstrate its terrible new technology.
  • No other country has ever used nuclear weapons.