Nagasaki
/ˌnæɡəˈsɑːki/
/ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːki/
- a city and port in south-west Japan. It was, after Hiroshima, the second city to be destroyed by an atomic bomb at the end of the Second World War. The bomb was dropped from a US plane on 9 August 1945, killing about 75 000 people immediately and another 75 000 who died later.
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