World War II: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki" id="mwxA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nagasaki">Nagasaki</a> is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki" id="mwxQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki">devastated</a> when an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon" id="mwxg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nuclear weapon">atomic bomb</a>, <i id="mwxw"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man" id="mwyA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Fat Man">Fat Man</a></i>, is dropped by the United States <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-29_Superfortress" id="mwyQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="B-29 Superfortress">B-29</a> <i id="mwyg"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bockscar" id="mwyw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Bockscar">Bockscar</a></i>. Thirty-five thousand people are killed outright, including 23,200–28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers.