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Nagasaki: When Truman Atom Bombed the Home of Japanese Catholicism
On a bright but cloudy morning on August 9, 1945, a US Army Air Force B-29 bomber named "Bockscar" flew over the Japanese port city of Nagasaki and dropped a highly radioactive ("dirty") Plutonium implosion bomb onto the city. It landed …