Sixty years ago today, Nagasaki became the second test laboratory for the killing power of atomic weapons -- only it was hit with a plutonium bomb, not a uranium one like Hiroshima.

A remembrance ceremony was held today. Here's the BBC story.

An earlier, relating posting is Hiroshima and my nuclear paranoia (still in progress, but getting there :) ).

Here's another earlier posting about the recent unearthing of stories by George Weller, the first U.S. journalist to visit Nagasaki after the bombing -- stories the U.S. military had spiked at the time.