Hi everybody, today is the 9th of August, when this podcast is first broadcast, and today

in 1945 at 11.02 Japanese time, the second nuclear bomb ever deployed on the battlefield

thankfully the last so far blew up above a tennis court in the north of the city of Nagasaki

in Japan. Very close to the Mitsubishi steel arm's works and the Nagasaki arsenal.

The bomb been dropped 47 seconds earlier by a B-29 US bomber called Boxcar, which immediately turned

away and made for Okinawa to ride with sufficient fuel only for a single approach. Large parts of

Nagasaki lay in ruins of 7,500 employees in the Mitsubishi munitions plant, something like 6,200

were killed outright. Estimates for deaths on the ground at Nagasaki very wildly from 20,000 to perhaps

80,000. And obviously to the deaths caused instantly by the bomb acts to be added many over the

following days and weeks from radiation poisoning, from collapse buildings, fires and other injuries

sustained. The radius of total destruction was about one mile. Last year was the 75th anniversary

of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombing, of course. And we got Fred Logoval on the podcast. He's a

good friend to pod, he's been on several times. He's a putt surprise winner. He is a Swedish

American historian, he's based at Harvard University and he's written extensively about Kennedy,

but also the decisions made towards the end of the Second World War and how those impact the Cold War.

This repeated that podcast on the anniversary of Nagasaki talking about the lesser known

the two nuclear strikes in the Second World War and how it affected the outcome of that war.

And some of the controversies around whether or not the bomb should have been even deployed

in the first place. You can listen to other back episodes of this podcast. If you become a

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