On August 9th, 1945 the US dropped the atomic bomb, code name "Fat Boy" on Nagasaki ordered by President Truman.
On 6th August 1945, Hiroshima was devastated by the first atomic bomb nicknamed `Little Boy, but the war was ended.
Three days later, just after 11 on the morning of 9th August, a second atomic bomb nicknamed `Fat Man’ exploded above the city of Nagasaki. Although it was even more powerful than `Little Boy’, the destruction caused by this bomb was less than at Hiroshima due to the nature of the terrain (the original target had been the city of Kokura, but the B29 carrying the bomb had been diverted to Nagasaki because of heavy cloud cover). Nonetheless, over 2 square miles of the city were pulverised and some 73,000 people killed.
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