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   Jens Notroff (jens2go@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 21:09:06 JST Jens Notroff

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   The bomb ("Fat Man", with a blast yield of 21 kt even stronger than "Little Boy's" 14 kt dropped on #Hiroshima 3 days earlier) missed its mark by about 2 km; still destroying half of #Nagasaki, killing 35,000 people, more than 10% of the city's population in less than a second.

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     Jens Notroff (jens2go@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 21:09:07 JST Jens Notroff

     "The fires gave the only real illumination. Even the noontime sunlight, filtering through the clouds, darkened. The word I kept hearing the girls say, #jigoku, means hell."

     August 9 1945, a second #AtomicBomb was dropped over Japan, on #Nagasaki.

     Quote: https://www.historynet.com/michie-hattori-eyewitness-to-the-nagasaki-atomic-bomb-blast

     Minoru Saba repeated this.