Today, sixty years ago, at 11:02 a.m., three days after the A-bombing of Hiroshima, the Japanese city of Nagasaki was destroyed by a plutonium based atomic bomb. Approximately 70,000 people were killed instantly in this blast. More death followed, just like at Hiroshima, from radiation sickness and thermal burns. Nearly a one mile diameter at the hypocenter was completely vaporized in the blink of an eye.

These are two links to information on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0805-28.htm

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-bird5aug05,0,760322.story