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Nagasaki Day Observance in front of SS. Peter & Paul Catholic Cathedral in Philadelphia
The U.S. dropped its second nuclear bomb, code-named "Fat Man", on Nagasaki, Japan, killing an estimated 40,000 people, and thousands more from the delayed effects of radiation poisoning. Often called the "forgotten nuclear city", Nagasaki, at the time, was the largest Christian population throughout all of Asia. Ground zero for the second bombing was the […]
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