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In late April 2018, rumors were circulated holding that an Israeli airplane in Syria has dropped the first nuclear bomb deployed in armed conflict since the US dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945: One disreputable conspiracy web site (responsible for a number of doomsday rumors) similarly asserted: Similarly, the fake news site Your News Wire picked up on this rumor and published an article reporting that: That article included embedded video of the purported nuclear explosion but elided its original description, which mentioned nothing about the deployment of nuclear weapons: Multiple credible news outlets reported Iranian casualties after a missile strike in northern Syria on 29 April 2018. However, none of those sources mentioned the use of a tactical nuke: The Syrian state news agency SANA did report a hostile [rocket] attack had occurred in that country, but their report also made no mention of any nuclear detonation: The use of atomic bombs by the U.S. against Japan at the end of World War II in 1945 marked the first and last time that nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. Modern usage of tactical nuke[s] would be globally newsworthy, but no credible news source reported such, nor did either Syrian state media nor the Facebook page responsible for uploading footage of 29 April 2018 missile strikes against Syria make any such claim.
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