Nagasaki

Nagasaki is a Japanese city, and the largest city in the Nagasaki prefecture. It was a port city that was an important place for international trading in the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. During the war, Nagasaki was a powerful city that held the main Imperial Japanese Navy Base. It had military power, and during the Second World War, became the second ever place attacked with nuclear weaponry after the Japanese allegedly “ignored” the warning given to them by the United States that called for “complete and utter destruction”. The death toll for the bombing of Nagasaki is an estimated 60,000 to 80,000 people killed, including allied prisoners of war. The decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been widely criticized in part because it was seen as a wholly unnecessary action that only functioned to display the fruits of the Manhattan Project, since the war was winding down and almost at a close by the time the decision to drop the bombs was made.

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