August 9th 1945.
At
least 70,000 died in the Nagasaki attack, which came three days after
another bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
Thousands more have died from injuries or illness since.About 30% of
Nagasaki, including almost all the industrial district was destroyed
by the bomb.
Nagasaki
was
the
secondary target for August 9th, but
Kokura,
the primary target, had 70% cloud cover obscuring that city, which
prevented
the planned attack.
Only one country has ever used nuclear weapons against the civilian population of another country.
"Now
I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
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