After dropping the first bomb on Hiroshima, the second target was decided and that target was the Japanese city of Kokura. Kokura was an important industrial city of Japan at that time ...

Three days later, on Aug. 9, the U.S. military dropped a second bomb, a plutonium weapon named “Fat Man,” on Nagasaki. The original target had been Kokura, but bad weather caused the military ...

Jacob Beser, an aircraft crewman, later recalled that they abandoned Kokura and headed to Nagasaki because “there was no sense dragging the bomb home or dropping it in the ocean.” As the plane ...

Each one flew to a potential target city—Hiroshima, Kokura and Nagasaki—to check if weather conditions would permit a bomb drop. Sources: The History Press, AHF At 3 a.m., Parsons and Jeppson ...

Codenamed "Fat Man" because of its round shape, the second bomb was much more powerful than the first. Originally, the Americans targeted the city of Kokura, but decided to drop the bomb on ...

Kokura. When it reported heavy cloud cover obscuring that city, the plane carrying the bomb proceeded to the secondary target, Nagasaki. Not many remember the name of that second atomic bomb plane.

On the morning of Aug. 9, 1945, a B-29 bomber loaded with an atomic bomb reached the skies over Kokura, now part of Kita-Kyushu. But there were too many clouds obscuring the city, making it ...

Wednesday marked the 78th anniversary of the second atomic bomb dropped by the United States ... Harry Truman set its sights on the city of Kokura to force the surrender of Japan.

After dropping the first bomb on Hiroshima, the second target was decided and that target was the Japanese city of Kokura. Kokura was an important industrial city of Japan at that time ...