The FAT MAN bomb was dropped at
11:02 a.m. local time
at an altitude of 1,650 feet
above the Urakami valley.
Nagasaki, a coastal city, well-known
where
Portuguese traders had made
trade and inter-religious
contact in the
16th Century C.E. Nagasaki
during the 20th century Asian
was a key port city 100 miles
away from Kokura where
the Japanese military
operated one of their
biggest ordnance factories,
manufacturing among
other things, chemical
weapons. As a target,
Nagasaki was larger than
Kokura with a population
of 263,000 including two
Mitsubishi military
factories. A B-29 named "Bock's Car"
dropped the plutonium bomb
only belatedly as clouds
had obscured visibility.
Major Sweeney prepared
to turn back due to diminished
fuel for the return flight. Its
explosive yield was 21 kilotons,
about 40% more than Little
Man (the uranium Atomic
Bomb dropped on Hiroshima).
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