A look back, from 50 years later, at the political and military circumstances and events leading up to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 1945.A look back, from 50 years later, at the political and military circumstances and events leading up to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 1945.A look back, from 50 years later, at the political and military circumstances and events leading up to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9 1945.