At 11:02 a.m. on Aug. 9, 1945, eighty years ago on Saturday, U.S. Army Air Force B-29 Bockscar (sometimes called Bock’s Car) dropped a plutonium-239 bomb called “Fat Man” on Urakami, Japan, the most Christian suburb of the most Christian city in Japan: Nagasaki.
It is the forgotten bomb, the silent bomb. Hiroshima, being the city where the first nuclear bomb, made of uranium and less powerful than the Nagasaki bomb was detonated, is the atomic bombing that all peace movements acclaim: “No more Hiroshimas!”
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