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8. The bomb actually ended up detonating over one of the most civilian areas of Nagasaki, and (ironically) one of the most Christian areas of Japan. The USAAF's own maps indicate that almost everything near GZ was civilian: houses, schools, hospitals.pic.twitter.com/sIpsBOyMqZ
9. It is essentially coincidental that two factories that produced munitions happened to be at the northern and southern fringes of the blast zone. The geography of the city also meant that, unlike Hiroshima, it was still functional (in the large "lower" half) after the bombing.
10. There were more mishaps and near-misses than I could even fit into my New Yorker article. Here's one of my favorites: that time in which the Fat Man bomb appeared to indicate, mid-flight, that it was armed and ready to detonate. From John Coster-Mullen's book.pic.twitter.com/EqEmZR7CGf
11. The bomb itself was christened with the acronym JANCFU: Joint Army-Navy-Civilian F*** Up. I think this was about as prophetic as one might imagine. The Nagasaki bombing run was as clear an indication that the nuclear age would be full of unpredictable mishaps and risks.pic.twitter.com/ikvtyAXKJ8
12. I'll just finish with my conclusion paragraph in my New Yorker piece on Nagasaki — which, as an aside, is still perhaps my favorite piece of writing I've ever done. FIN. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/nagasaki-the-last-bomb …pic.twitter.com/c2pMyyXz11
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