Twists of fate made Nagasaki a target 75 years ago

Click Here to Read: Twists of fate made Nagasaki a target 75 years ago: The Japanese port was not the U.S’s. first choice for a nuclear attack in August 1945, but shifting circumstances and last-minute choices doomed the city by Amy Briggs on the National Geographic Website on August 5, 2020. Atomic cloud over Nagasaki from Koyagi-jima  Image: Hiromichi Matsuda (松田 弘道, ?-1969) Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

He was an American child in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb dropped

Click Here to Read:  He was an American child in Hiroshima on the day the atomic bomb dropped: Howard Kakita was visiting his grandparents when the United States destroyed the Japanese city 75 years ago By Ted Gup on the Washington Post website on August 4, 2020.
Atomic cloud over Hiroshima, taken from “Enola Gay” flying over Matsuyama, Shikoku Image: 509th Operations Group  Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.