On this day in 1945,

U.S. Drops 2nd Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

60-80,000 Killed

Many Vaporized

(Video showing the effects of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings)

On this day in 1945, the U.S. dropped a second atom bomb on Japan at Nagasaki, forcing Japan’s unconditional surrender.  Somewhere between 60,000 and 80,000 people were killed, with exact figures impossible to determine because so many bodies were virtually vaporized.

Although the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastating, the “fire-bombing” of Tokyo the prior March was worse, resulting in 100,000 deaths, a million homeless, and 16 square miles of complete desolation.

Wikipedia Bombing of Nagasaki

Wikipedia Tokyo Fire-Bombing