Nagasaki

Definitions

1. A port city, the capital and largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture, in southwestern Kyushu, Japan, famous as the country's early modern entrepot and for its nuclear bombing on 9 August 1945 at the end of World War II.
2. A prefecture of Japan.

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“VINCENT: Tens of thousands killed before sundown; nobody's killed people that fast since Hiroshima and Nagasaki.”

“This slab is where the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki 75 years ago were put⟳ together. It’s the assembly point⟳ for the dawning of the atomic age.”

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