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The harrowing story of the Nagasaki bombing mission

By: Ellen Bradbury & Sandra Blakeslee   |   Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists   |   Aug 2015
'Seventy years ago, on August 9, at approximately 3:47 a.m. local time on the island of Tinian, a massive B-29 Superfortress aircraft roared down a tropical airport runway, carrying 13 men and what was then the world’s most destructive weapon—an atomic bomb called Fat Man.'