("Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Ending the Nuclear Threat")
Miscommunications are a common occurance amongst people, and are only heightened with the addition of language and cultural barriers. In 1945, the Japanese responded to the Potsdam Declaration with the word "mokusatsu". This word has a variety of possible translations, and unfortunately, the translation that was interpreted by the U.S. government was not the same as that which was meant by the Japanese Prime Minister, Kantaro Suzuki. As a result of this miscommunication, two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thousands of lives were lost, mass destruction took place, and the world was sent into an atomic age of nuclear weapons, on account of a fatal miscommunication between the United States and Japan.