What happened in 1945?

US launches atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
Japan, Nagasaki.
Agosto 9, 1945.

On this day in 1945, the US launched a second atomic bomb on Japan in Nagasaki, seeking the unconditional surrender of Japan. Ninety thousand people died of bright lightning and the subsequent impact that destroyed 75 percent of the city of Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, when a US plane dropped the first atomic bomb to be used in a war. The explosion and fires that erupted wounded 60,000 others, many of whom later died of cancer and other diseases caused by radiation.

The devastation in Hiroshima was not enough to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the demand of the Potsdam Conference to unconditional surrender.

The United States had planned to launch its second atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man", on August 11, but bad weather scheduled for that day forward the date until August 9. The bomb was dropped at 11:02 am, at 1,650 meters above the city. The explosion sparked equivalent to 22,000 tons of TNT force. The death toll is estimated at 60,000 to 80,000 (exact figures are impossible because the explosion wiped disintegrated bodies and records).