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/ 18 July 2004

Nagasaki nuclear-bomb pilot dies

Charles W Sweeney, a retired Air Force general who piloted the plane that dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki in the final days of World War II, has died at age 84. About 70 000 people were killed in the explosion of the bomb, dubbed ”Fat Man”. It was the first bomb Sweeney ever dropped on an enemy target.