Nagasaki remembers 'Fat Man' devastation

A siren wailed and a bronze bell rang as Nagasaki marked the moment 60 years ago when an American plane appeared in its skies and dropped the “Fat Man” plutonium bomb, killing 80,000 people and sealing Japan’s Second World War defeat.

About 6,000 people, including hundreds of ageing bomb survivors, crowded into Nagasaki’s Peace Memorial Park, just a few hundred yards from the centre of the blast, for a solemn remembrance and moment of silence.