Bombing of Nagasaki - a podcast by BBC World Service

In 1945, the allies dropped an atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The explosion was bigger than the blast at Hiroshima three days earlier and killed 70,000 people. Louise Hidalgo introduces BBC archive recordings of survivors of Nagasaki.

(Photo: Mushroom cloud in the sky. Credit: US Air Force/Press Association)

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