August 9, 1945, Nagasaki.
At 11:02, local time, for the second time in history, a nuclear device was detonated over a city. According to statistics found later, the death toll from the atomic bombing totaled 73,884,as well as another 74,909 injured, and another several hundred thousand diseased and dying due to fallout and other illness caused by radiation.
Only one nation has ever used nuclear weapons against the civilian population of another nation.
At 11:02, local time, for the second time in history, a nuclear device was detonated over a city. According to statistics found later, the death toll from the atomic bombing totaled 73,884,as well as another 74,909 injured, and another several hundred thousand diseased and dying due to fallout and other illness caused by radiation.
Only one nation has ever used nuclear weapons against the civilian population of another nation.
The following is from BBC "On This Day 1950 - 2005. 9th August" BBC News.
1945: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki
American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki - the second such attack on Japan in three days.
The bomb was dropped by parachute from an American B29 Bomber at 1102 local time.
It exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground and is believed to have completely destroyed the city, which is situated on the western side of the Japanese island of Kyushu.
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Important port
American airmen flying many miles from Nagasaki have said smoke from fires in the city was rising 50,000ft (15,240m).
Nagasaki is one of Japan's most important ports providing vital access to and from Shanghai.
Three days ago a similar device was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Japan's largest island, Honshu.
The extent of the damage caused to Hiroshima is not yet known but Japanese broadcasts indicate that "enormous devastation" has been done.
No reaction to the Nagasaki attack has yet been given by Japan but pressure is growing on the country to surrender. Yesterday the USSR joined forces with the allies and declared war on Japan.
The Americans have also warned the Japanese people that further attacks of a similar nature will be made unless they petition their emperor to surrender.
More than three million leaflets were dropped over the country today from American aeroplanes warning the Japanese people that more atomic weapons would be used "again and again" to destroy the country unless they ended the war forthwith.
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