Either the US nuked Japan in 1955 or "Outside the Beltway" has a very loose grip on history

This is truly embarrassing. Somebody over at "Outside the Beltway" didn't check the math or the facts. The past week marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.


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The post also includes this error:

Japanese soldiers were still being found hiding in jungles over 20 years after the war, convinced that Japan could never surrender.

Well, 20 years would bring us up to 1965, but "holdouts" were being found long after that. According to Google, the last two officially recognized Japanese "holdouts" surrendered in 1974 and 1980.

March 5, 1974 - Lubang Island - 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda
Probably the most 'famous' of the Japanese holdouts, Onoda was the only survivor of a group of four. He surrendered 29 years after Japan's formal surrender, and 15 years after being declared legally dead in Japan. When he accepted that the war was over, he wept openly.
April 1980 - Captain Fumio Nakahira on Mindoro
Captain Fumio Nakahira of the Japanese Imperial Army, held out before being discovered at Mt. Halcon in Mindoro.

This photograph was taken of Onoda immediately after his surrender in 1974.