61 years ago today, the US Army Air Force dropped the “Fat Man” atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Nagasaki was not the primary target. It was supposed to be Kokura, where most of the military arsenal were. However, conditions did not allow them to bomb Kokura, so they switched to the nearest secondary target.
At 11.01am, Captain Kermit Beahan, the bombardier of the Bockscar flown by Captain Frederick C Bock, saw a break in the clouds over Nagasaki and released the bomb. 43 seconds later the bomb exploded 469 meters above the city, nearly 3 kilometers away from the planned hypocenter. The blast was confined to the Urakami Valley and a major portion of the city was spared, unlike Hiroshima which was 90% destroyed.
At Hiroshima, some 80,000 people were killed instantly, while in Nagasaki, some 70,000 did.
Let us pray that Nagasaki will forever be the last city to suffer an atomic bomb attack.
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