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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