Feature photo courtesy of the National Archives. “Nagasaki was an embarrassment to the art of war.” –Don DeLillo, End Zone * One of the most disturbing sporting events in history took place on January 1, 1946, when the US military staged an all-star football game on a field in Nagasaki, Japan—less than five months after an atomic bomb killed over 70,000 in that city, nearly all of them civilians.