Five myths about the atomic bomb

The Hiroshima A-bomb blast, photographed by the U.S. military on August 6, 1945. The explosion was not the sole reason Japan surrendered, despite what American history textbooks say.

On Aug. 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Another bomb fell Aug. 9 on Nagasaki. Decades later, controversy and misinformat…