Nuclear Weapons 12 - The Bombing of Nagasaki
After the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945, the Japanese still would not surrender according to the Potsdam Declaration. Kokura had been selected as the primary target with Nagasaki as a backup target for the plutonium based Fat Man bomb. Nagasaki was a major Japanese port and was very important to the Japanese war effort due to the production of ammunition, ships, military equipment and other war supplies.