Eighty years ago today, America killed 70,000 people and laid the foundation for VJ Day. Now we recount those fateful hours in liveblog style

Eighty years ago today, America killed 70,000 people and laid the foundation for VJ Day. Now we recount those fateful hours in liveblog style

Survivors and their families gathered Saturday in rainy weather at Peace Park and nearby Hypocenter Park, located below the bomb’s exact detonation spot.

The US dropped the bomb on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima that killed 140,000.