August 9, 1945. 11:02 a.m. Bockscar, the B-29 bomber carrying a plutonium-core atomic bomb and commanded by 25-year- old Major Charles Sweeney, dropped its deadly cargo over Nagasaki from a height of 9,600 meters. Like the primary target Kokura, Nagasaki was overcast that morning. With barely enough fuel remaining to reach Okinawa, Major Sweeney and his crew had to pinpoint their target in the course of only one run over the city. By chance a crack opened in the clouds, revealing the industrial zone stretching from the Mitsubishi sports field in Hamaguchi-machi to the Mitsubishi Steel Works in Mori-machi and automatically designating this as the bombing target. The actual explosion, however, occurred some five or six hundred meters to the north over a tennis court in Matsuyama-machi. The details of the explosion can be summarized as follows.
 The mushroom cloud seen from an American aircraftДальше » |
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