What Happened in Nagasaki?

Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, Nagasaki was bombed too, solely because the Japanese military leaders safe and comfortable in their palace refused to surrender even though there was NO hope at all of winning the war.

Anyway...

In the morning of August 9th, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress "Bockscar" of the United States Air Force flew over the city of Nagasaki releasing da"Fat Man", which was an atomic bomb. It pretty much did everything "Little Boy" did except kill 60 000 people less, mostly because of prior evacuations of school children to rural areas due to previous conventional bombings. Again, most of the casualties were civilians.

What was even worse was that unknown survivors of Hiroshima made it to Nagasaki, only to be bombed again. Such is the cruelty of war ("'I saw both of the bombs and lived'").

Not A City Anymore...

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