Nagasaki, Japan

Nagasaki, Japan:

Nagasaki, a Japanese city on Kyushu island, was the site of the second atomic attack in military history. It was unleashed upon the city on August 9, 1945, three days after the attack on Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bomb, like the bomb tested in Alamagordo, New Mexico, was plutonium based, unlike the uranium based device detonated over Hiroshima. The Nagasaki bomb destroyed about one third of the city, and killed over 60,000 people.

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