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The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Untold Story by Gary G. Kohls

The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: The Untold Story by Gary G. Kohls: "The US bomber command had spared Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Kokura from the conventional bombing that had burned to the ground 60+ other major Japanese cities during the first half of 1945. One of the reasons for targeting relatively undamaged cities with these new weapons of mass destruction was scientific: to see what would happen to intact buildings – and their living inhabitants – when atomic weapons were exploded overhead.
Early in the morning of August 9, 1945, a B-29 Superfortress called Bock’s Car, took off from Tinian Island, with the prayers and blessings of its Lutheran and Catholic chaplains, and headed for Kokura, the primary target. (Its bomb was code-named 'Fat Man,' after Winston Churchill.)
The only field test of a nuclear weapon, blasphemously named 'Trinity,' had occurred just three weeks earlier, on July 16, 1945 at Alamogordo, New Mexico. The molten lavarock that resulted, still found at the site today, is called trinitite."

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