Originally, the Americans targeted the city of Kokura, but decided to drop the bomb on Nagasaki after cloud cover over Kokura blocked the pilots' vision. Nearly 40,000 people died instantly in ...

NAGASAKI--With Typhoon No ... ‘What happened to human beings under that mushroom cloud 78 years ago?’ and address the fundamental question of, ‘What would happen to the Earth and to ...

During World War II, thousands of prisoners of war were detained on in a camp in Nagasaki. When the atomic ... but close enough to see the mushroom cloud. Their stories are rarely told, but ...

It was hell." The Nagasaki bomb, on 9 August 1945, came three days after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The city was only chosen after a cloud obscured the original target, Kokura.