Friday, August 9, 2019

The day the US destroyed Nagasaki

On August 9, 1945 Nagasaki  was destroyed when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city.

Thirty-five thousand people were immediately killed. 

The dead included 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.

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