Nagasaki From the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Courtesy of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. Photograph by U.S. Military Forces, Courtesy of Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum. Three days later—at 11:02 a.m.—a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. This was a plutonium bomb, even more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. However, because the blast center was 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the center of Nagasaki, fewer people were killed. The precise number of people who were killed or wounded and later died from the effects of the bomb remains unknown, but the death toll at Nagasaki reached at least 70,000 by the end of 1945. After the Bombing Before the Bombing
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