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Dense column of smoke capped by mushroom cloud rises more than 60,000 feet into air over Japanese port of Nagasaki, result of atomic bomb, second ever used in warfare, dropped on industrial center from US B-29 Superfortress.
Date taken:August 8, 1945
Size:941 x 1280 pixels (13.1 x 17.8 inches)

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