How many people died in Nagasaki by the end of 1945?

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Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki A gigantic mushroom cloud rising above Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, after a U.S. aircraft dropped an atomic bomb on the city, immediately killing more than 70,000 people.

By the end of 1945, approximately 70,000 people had died in Nagasaki as a result of the atomic bombing that occurred on August 9, 1945.123

While roughly 40,000 individuals were killed instantly or shortly after the blast, at least 30,000 additional people succumbed to their injuries and radiation poisoning in the months following the attack. An exact accounting of the total death toll remains impossible, as many records were destroyed during the event.123