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On two days, seventy-five years ago, the United States used nuclear weapons in combat for the first and, so far, only time in history. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, on August 6 and 9, 1945, killed a quarter of a million people and ushered in an era of imperialist aggression through the threat of global annihilation.

Then, as now, the United States and its imperialist allies argued that the use of nuclear weapons against a civilian population was necessary to force Japan’s surrender and end World War II. This claim has been repeatedly proven to be false.

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