The Horror & Legacy of `Fat Man'. The World's First Plutonium Bomb. On 8 August 1945 America dropped its second atomic bomb on Nagasaki three days after the bomb on Hiroshima. The city was a veritable apocalyptic vision devastated by this new type of weapon whose repercussions were yet to be discovered. This second bomb marked the end of the War for Japan. The memories of survivors both Japanese civilians and Western POWs are even more moving than the images themselves as they
In 1944 the Americans launched 'Operation Forager' the invasion of Saipan to enable them to launch their main attack on Japan. However through a sense of nobility and an often misplaced fear over one thousand men women and children would commit suicide rather than come into contact with the American troops...
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