aug 9, 1945 - 27. Nagasaki*
Description:
Three days after the Hiroshima bombing the US dropped a second atomic bomb, Fat Man, on Nagasaki leveling half of the city. Around 200,000 Japanese lives were lost that day and radiation levels spiked in Japan.Significance - Further displayed the destruction the atomic warfare brought. Radiation levels killed people in years after and haunted the Japanese people.
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Date:
aug 9, 1945
Now
~ 79 years ago