Nagasaki Memorial Day

Three days after Hiroshima, a second bomb fell. The world has lived with both ever since.

Nagasaki Memorial Day on August 9 marks the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945, at 11:02 AM. A plutonium bomb nicknamed 'Fat Man' was dropped from the B-29 Bockscar, detonating approximately 500 meters above the city. The bomb killed an estimated 40,000 people ins