Manhattan Project National Historical Park will hold a moment of silence to remember the 74th anniversary of when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in the waning days of World War II. The event will be held at 11:00 AM, August 9, outside the Manhattan Project NHP Los Alamos Visitor Center, located at 475 20th Street.
The plutonium fueled atomic bomb “Fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, at 11:02 AM local time in Japan, resulting in the death of tens of thousands of people. It is one of only two times an atomic weapon has been intentionally used on a human population. The United States dropped an atomic bomb three days earlier on Hiroshima, Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, also killing tens of thousands. World War II came to an end less than a week after the bombing of Nagasaki with the surrender of Japan on Aug. 15, 1945. The surrender became official on Sept. 2, 1945, six years and one day after World War II began when Germany invaded Poland on Sept 1, 1939.
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Source: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service
