The saint of Nagasaki

The saint of Nagasaki

The plutonium bomb (“Fat Boy”), dropped on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killed about 30,000 people instantly and caused the death of up to 80,000 over the next few months. Hiroshima, a much flatter city, lost about double that number. Perhaps that is one reason why Hiroshima, not Nagasaki, has become the symbol of nuclear annihilation. Then, of course, Hiroshima, on August 6, came first. A hideous irony of the Nagasaki bombing is that Fat Boy was…