Nagasaki

"Fat Man" was the name of the plutonium bomb dropped on the city of Nagasaki on this day, sixty years ago. One footnote in history has gotten lost in the story: that Nagasaki wasn't supposed to get the bomb. The city of Kokura was the original target, but due to heavy cloud cover, the B-29 carrying the bomb (Bock's Car) could not get a sighting on the city. As was the standard operating procedure of the day, when a bomber or bombers could not a get a fix on a primary target due to thick cloud cover, they had a secondary target already picked prior to the mission. That secondary target was Nagasaki. Talk about dumb luck...