The dramatic difference in time zones between DC and Japan mean that some aspects of the atomic bombing timeline are more compressed than the raw dates make clear. On August 8, 1945, in Washington DC (then on Eastern War Time = EWT = UTC-4), three huge things happened:
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3. At 10pm EWT, Nagasaki was bombed (11am local time, August 9).
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