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About 800 meters from where the second atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki on the morning of August 9, 1945, a stone gate was standing at the entrance to the Sannō Shrine. The blast took one of its two support pillars. It should have taken both. Instead, as later recorded, one support column was kno