On This Day: Nagasaki (1945)

Three days after Hiroshima, the second atomic bomb.

The bombing of Nagasaki was not the original plan. The primary target that day was Kokura, but cloud cover redirected the plane to Nagasaki. The bomb, called "Fat Man," was a plutonium device and more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, but Nagasaki's hilly geography contained the blast, resulting in