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- Atomic bombing of Nagasaki Primary record 1234
Proof 4 sources
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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