The B-29 Bockscar, finding its primary target Kokura obscured by clouds, then diverted to its secondary target, Nagasaki.
At 11:02 AM, it dropped Fat Man on the city, with the bomb detonating between the Mitsubishi Nagasaki Arms Factory’s Ohashi and Mori-Machi plants with 60,000-80,000 deaths as a result.
Japan then announced it was surrendering on August 15th, with the formal surrender taking place on September 2, 1945, bringing the Second World War to a close. The surrender saved millions of lives that would have been lost in a ground invasion of Japan in fact we still haven't gone through all of the 500,000 Purple Hearts specifically minted in anticipation of the invasion.
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