While the world holds its breath as Russia wages war in Ukraine and has on a number of occasions made threatening comments of the possibility of tactical nuclear warfare, it remembers this day, August 9, 1945.
Seventy eight years ago today a United States B-29 Bockscar bomber, Fat Man dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
Thirty five thousand people were killed on the day.
Three days earlier another US bomber called Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing between 70,000 and 120,000 people.
The United States is the only country ever to have used the atomic bomb.
USA, China, Russia, France, UK, India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel are nuclear powers.
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