... Japanese government did not surrender, a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki . This atom bomb was named "Fat Man." It was more powerful than the one dropped in Hiroshima. A bomber named Bock's Car dropped "Fat Man-. New York Times reporter, William L. Laurence rode in an observation plane that accompanied the bomber. After the bomb was dropped, he described the blast: "...a giant ball ... ...

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... . It had vanished and only smoldering ruins remained...all I could see was a sea of flames. I was so terrified I couldn't stop shaking. " On August 9, 1945, a second B-29 "Flying Fortress" named the Bock's Car dropped the plutonium bomb known as "Fat Man" over the city of Nagasaki. It missed by over a mile! The bomb still managed to destroy half the city as well ... ...

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