Nuclear Disaster, U.s. Drops Atomic Bomb On Nagasaki
1945 • Nagasaki, Japan
"On August 9, 1945, another American B-29 bomber, Bock's Car, left Tinian carrying Fat Man, a plutonium implosion-type bomb...The bomb exploded at 11:02 a.m. over the narrow Urakami Valley northwest of downtown Nagasaki. Of the 286,000 people living in Nagasaki at the time of the blast, 74,000 people were killed and another 75,000 sustained severe injuries."
"Hiroshima & Nagasaki Remembered." Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered. Web. 22 Mar. 2012. .
Nagasaki, Japan. September 24, 1945, 6 weeks after the city was destroyed by the world's second atomic bomb attack. Photo by Cpl. Lynn P. Walker, Jr. (Marine Corps) NARA FILE #: 127-N-136176
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