The White House has hit out at a “leaked” intelligence assessment that the US had failed to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites in its weekend strikes, in remarks that dismissed the findings as “wrong” but appeared to acknowledge their authenticity.

In August 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing over 2 lakh people, most of whom were civilians. Days after the strikes, the Japanese government announced unconditional surrender, thus ending the protracted World War 2. The strikes remain the only use of nuclear weapons in an armed conflict.

President Trump and his top national security brass aggressively pushed back on reporting that Iran’s nuclear program was only set back a matter of months – a determination made by the