Atomic bombing of Nagasaki

The United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945.

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1945.8.9 At 11:02 a.m., August 9, 1945, City of Nagasaki, Nagasaki Peace (Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum). Primary record
dropped its deadly cargo over Nagasaki from a height of 9,600 meters and it exploded at 11:02 a.m.
Manhattan Project: The Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki, August 9, 1945, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources (OSTI OpenNet), 1999. Primary record
By January 1946, the number of deaths probably approached 70,000
At 11:02 a.m., at an altitude of 1,650 feet, Fat Man (right) exploded over Nagasaki.
The best estimate is 40,000 people died initially, with 60,000 more injured.
Counting the dead at Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Alex Wellerstein), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Scholarship & press
In 1949, a Nagasaki City committee estimated that 73,884 people had died.
At Nagasaki, out of a pre-raid population of 195,000, 39,000 had died, and 25,000 were injured.
To Live: August 6, 1945: From That Day Forth (Introduction), Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (virtual museum). Primary record
approximately 140,000 people in Hiroshima, and 70,000 people in Nagasaki, died because of the bombs.
Manhattan Project: Japan Surrenders, August 10-15, 1945, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources (OSTI OpenNet), 1999. Primary record
on July 25, 1945, President Harry S. Truman gave the order to commence atomic attacks on Japan as soon as possible.

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