Nagasaki

[nah-guh-sah-kee, nag-uh-sak-ee, nah-gah-sah-kee]

noun

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

Nagasaki

/ 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)

Nagasaki

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

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).)

Example Sentences

Those bombs—just two bombs, each small enough to fit in a plane—destroyed the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 people.

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But then, completely unexpectedly months later, America dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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Worse yet, today’s arsenals contain thousands of thermonuclear weapons, some of them up to 1,000 times more powerful than those dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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The Nagasaki bomb, bigger and more powerful, wiped out whole communities in seconds.

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World War Two ended with Japan's surrender after the dropping of the bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place days apart.

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