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Bombing of Nagasaki

Bombing of Nagasaki

Survivors remember the atomic explosion over the Japanese city in 1945

Witness History: World War Two history · BBC World Service

August 9, 20138m 53s

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Show Notes

In 1945, the allies dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The explosion was bigger than the blast at Hiroshima three days earlier and killed 70,000 people. Louise Hidalgo introduces BBC archive recordings of survivors of Nagasaki.

(Photo: Mushroom cloud in the sky. Credit: US Air Force/Press Association)