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 | | On 9 August 1945, Nagasaki was the target of the world's second atomic bomb attack at 11:02 a.m., when the north of the city was destroyed and an estimated 39,000 people were killed outright with another 75,000 believed to have died of bomb-related causes in the decades that followed. |
 | | The Nagasaki bomb, code-named "Fat Man", dropped by the Boeing B-29 Bockscar was more powerful (22 kilotons of TNT as opposed to 15) than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima three days earlier ("Little Boy"), and was an implosion-type plutonium bomb, whereas the Hiroshima bomb was a gun-type uranium bomb. |
 | | The industrial areas outside Nagasaki were the secondary target and so, despite a more powerful bomb, the devastation visited upon Nagasaki was less severe than that experienced by Hiroshima, owing to Nagasaki's mountainous topography. |
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