Clouds Over Kokura Seal Nagasaki’s Fate: The Last-Minute Twist That Ended World War II

On August 9, 1945, clouds over Kokura forced a US bomber to switch to Nagasaki, where a sudden break in the sky led to a devastating strike that killed 40,000 instantly and hastened Japan’s surrender, ending World War II.

On August 9, 1945, the U.S. bombed Nagasaki with the "Fat Man" atomic bomb causing widespread destruction.

Source : U.S. National Archives

August 9, 1945. The date that turned the final outcome of World War II. Way back in 1945. Here’s more about this day on which the second Japanese city was hit by an atomic bomb in a span of 4 days, bringing the proud martial nation to its knees and how Nagasaki could have escaped the bomb if its skies were not so clear that day. On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler killed himself in an underground bunker beneath his Third Reich Headquarters in the German capital Berlin as Soviet Red Army