This book examines the scientific and medical evidence to determine whether the conventional story of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki can be true. It concludes thatno nuclear detonations took place, the cities were destroyed with conventional explosives and napalm, the victims were killed not with radiation but with mustard gas, and also with napalm.While most of the book deals with the medical and the physical evidence, the final two chapters also examine the wider historic and political implications.