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Bombing of Nagasaki

Bombing of Nagasaki

FromWitness History: World War Two


Bombing of Nagasaki

FromWitness History: World War Two

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Length:
9 minutes
Released:
Aug 9, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In 1945, the allies dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The explosion was bigger than the blast at Hiroshima three days earlier and killed 70,000 people. Louise Hidalgo introduces BBC archive recordings of survivors of Nagasaki.

(Photo: Mushroom cloud in the sky. Credit: US Air Force/Press Association)
Released:
Aug 9, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

More than 50 first-hand accounts of significant moments in WW2. Looking back at almost six years of global conflict, from Hiroshima to the Holocaust.