The Story of the Nagasaki Bombing Mission

Seventy years ago, on August 9, at approximately 3:47 a.m. local time on the island of Tinian, a massive B-29 Superfortress aircraft roared down a tropical airport runway, carrying 13 men and what was then the world’s most destructive weapon—an atomic bomb called Fat Man. It was the second atomic bomb in existence, and far more powerful than the first, called Little Boy, which had been dropped on Hiroshima just three days earlier.

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