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!!!!!OTHER BOMBED CITY WAS NAGASAKI!!!!!! media type="custom" key="7792217"

This website has lots of great descriptions of the horrible bombing. (N.A). (N.D). Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembered. Retrieved December 1st, 2010 from [] The bomb exploded at 11:02 a.m on August 9, 1945, over the narrow Urakami Valley northwest of downtown Nagasaki. Of the 286,000 people living in Nagasaki at the time of the blast, 74,000 people were killed and another 75,000 had severe injuries.The damage was less extensive, since the bomb was dropped about 2 miles off target. It was a much more difficult target than Hiroshima.Fat Man exploded at 1,840 feet above Nagasaki and approximately 500 feet south of the Mitsubishi Steel and Armament Works with an estimated force of 22,000 tons of TNT.

This website has alot about the bombing in Hiroshima and the "Enola Gay". Jennifer Rosenberg. 2010. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Retrieved December 1st, 2010 from [] At 2:45 a.m. on Monday, August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay, took off from Tinian, a North Pacific island in the Marianas, 1,500 miles south of Japan. The twelve-man crew were on board to make sure this secret mission went smoothly. Colonel Paul Tibbets, the pilot, nicknamed the B-29 the "Enola Gay" after his mother. Just before take-off, the plane's nickname was painted on its side.

This website has a little of everything! (N.A). (N.D). Tales of Two Cities: Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Retrieved December 1st, 2010 from [] On the morning of August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Forces dropped the nuclear weapon "Little Boy" on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, the "Fat Man" bomb was dropped over Nagasaki. That said, it is estimated that by December 1945, as many as 140,000 had died in Hiroshima by the bomb and its after effects. In Nagasaki, roughly 74,000 people died of the bomb and its after effects.

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