Nagasaki

American  

[nah-guh-sah-kee, nag-uh-sak-ee, nah-gah-sah-kee] / ˌnɑ gəˈsɑ ki, ˌnæg əˈsæk i, ˈnɑ gɑˈsɑ ki /

noun

1. a seaport on W Kyushu, in SW Japan: second military use of the atomic bomb August 9, 1945.

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Nagasaki British  

/ ˌnɑːɡəˈsɑːkɪ /

noun

1. a port in SW Japan, on W Kyushu: almost completely destroyed in 1945 by the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan by the US; shipbuilding industry. Pop: 419 901 (2002 est)

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Nagasaki Cultural  

1. City in southern Japan; one of Japan's leading ports and shipbuilding centers.

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The first Japanese port to welcome Western traders in the sixteenth century, it was the only Japanese port open to the West from 1641 to 1858.

Nagasaki became the second populated area to be devastated by an atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb), on August 9, 1945. (See also Hiroshima (see also Hiroshima).)

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When Baerwald read that, “I was really alarmed, in the moment,” he says, realizing how closely tied his grandfather had been to the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

"Sideways locomotion may have contributed significantly to the ecological success of true crabs," says senior corresponding author Yuuki Kawabata, Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Integrated Science and Technology, Nagasaki University, Japan.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026

The United States is the only country to have used nuclear weapons in combat, obliterating the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II, killing some 214,000 people.

From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026

“As someone that was born in Nagasaki, I’m against all wars,” said Asumi Hidaka, 36, a mother of two young children.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

From that material, the Los Alamos bomb makers would create the device known as Fat Man, the plutonium bomb dropped over Nagasaki three days after the Hiroshima bombing.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik