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Thursday 9th of August 1945

79 years ago



The US B-29 Bockscar piloted by Major Charles W. Sweeney drops a bomb named 'Fat Man' containing a core of about 5 kg of plutonium in Urakami, Nagasaki, Kyushu, Japan.

Less than a second after the detonation the north of the city was destroyed and 35.000 people were killed. Among the deaths were 6.200 out of the 7.500 employees of the Mitsubishi Munitions plant and 24.000 others (including 2.000 Koreans) who worked in other war plants and factories in the city, as well as 150 Japanese soldiers.


More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki#Nagasaki