Nagasaki bombed
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Three days after Hiroshima, with no Japanese surrender yet in hand, a plutonium bomb destroyed the port city of Nagasaki. Forty thousand people died in an instant. The same day Soviet armies swept into Japanese-occupied Manchuria. Within a week, Emperor Hirohito told his people on radio to endure the unendurable and surrendered.
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