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Phrases August 9, 1945 On August 9, 1945, two days after the
blast at Hiroshima, Nagasaki fell victim to a second atomic bomb
because of bad weather. The plane, named Bock's Car, was
supposed to drop the Fat Man, a new and experimental plutonium
bomb, on the war industry complexes in Kokura. A delay in
hooking up with Bock's Car's B-29 escorts meant that when they
reached Kokura, bad weather had rolled in and blocked their
view. So they headed over to the secondary target, Nagasaki and
its vital shipyards, and dropped the bomb there. More powerful
than the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the Fat Man's core
of plutonium, surrounded by TNT, imploded. The runaway fission
chain reaction released the heat- and light-wave radiation of a
small sun over the target, which in turn delivered a blast
pressure of tons per square inch. Virtually nothing within miles
of the blast was left standing, or even recognizable. Nagasaki's
hilly topography and conformi