How was Nagasaki chosen to drop the atomic bomb?

On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World invade II. The blast devastated an area of ​​up to 13 square kilometers.

Thousands of lives were ruined in one fell swoop. As long as the damage was fully assessed, an atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, another Japanese city, on August 9. However, Nagasaki was not the real target.

So why did Nagasaki become a target?

The night of August 8, 1945, had passed. U.S. bomber The 29 Super Fotres was bombed. The largest watermelon-sized bomb weighed 4,050 kilograms.

The second bomb targeted the Japanese industrial city of Kokra. It was home to Japan's largest and largest arms factory. 

At nine o'clock in the morning, at fifty minutes, the cockroach began to appear. At that time b. 29 The plane was flying at an altitude of 31,000 feet.

Bomb dropped on Nagasaki 

But there were clouds over the city. The plane hovered in the air, waiting for the clouds to clear. B. 29 He returned to Kokra, but when it was time to drop the bomb, the city was engulfed in smoke, and cannons were burning below.

B. The 29 was running out of fuel, and the plane had only enough fuel left to return. The plane could not wait long in the air.

Leonard Chesher, the group's captain for the campaign, later said, "When we started flying at nine in the morning, the cockroach was on target. It was cloudy when we got there. We were then instructed to leave the area. And we moved on to another target, which was Nagasaki.

" Soon a heavy bomb was rapidly approaching the ground. After falling for 52 seconds, the bomb exploded at an altitude of 500 feet above the ground.

Atom bomb 

The time on the clock was eleven o'clock two minutes. A huge fireball in the shape of a mushroom rose, which gradually increased in size and engulfed the whole city. 

All boats anchored off the coast of Nagasaki also caught fire. No one knew what happened to their city. Everything was over before it was realized.

Outside the city, some prisoners of invade were working in the mines. One of them said, "The whole city has been wiped out." We knew something very unusual had happened. There were corpses everywhere. People's faces, hands, feet were melting. We have never heard of an atomic bomb. "

Nagasaki was surrounded by mountains, so the catastrophe did not spread beyond 6.7 square kilometers. It was later estimated that 140,000 people died in Hiroshima and 74,000 in Nagasaki.

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