80 years after atomic bombing. Nagasaki and Tri

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Tri-Cities workers produced plutonium that powered the last atomic bomb 80 years ago.

Relief in Tri-Cities that war ended without further lives lost; immense suffering in Japan

Peace ceremonies in Nagasaki and Richland mark 80 years since 1945 bombing.

Half a world apart, the Tri-Cities in Washington and Nagasaki in Japan are linked forever by the birth of the Atomic Age.

In the community that became the Tri-Cities, workers raced during World War II to create the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, just three days after an atomic bomb fueled with uranium was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.

At 11:02 a.m. Aug. 9, 1945, from 1,650 feet above Nagasaki , “Fat Man,” an atomic bomb fueled with Hanford site plutonium, was dropp