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The Day The Sun Burst -- Nagasaki Remembered

Brian McKenna | Posted 10.09.2012 | Canada
Brian McKenna

On August 9, 1945, just before 11 a.m., a solitary American bomber is making its final approach on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. In the form of a plutonium 235 bomb called Fat Man, resembling a giant winged tumor, the B-29 is carrying death for some 100,000 Japanese. At that same moment, my aunt Reggie is almost directly below the bomber.