Fat Man
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After this successful test, the Gadget was succeeded by Fat Man and Little Boy, the two bombs dropped over Japan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Elsewhere is a display meant to honor the Japanese people killed and injured by Fat Man and Little Boy, a smaller bomb dropped on Hiroshima three days earlier.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
Katie Hafner: So pretty much all of Los Alamos then retrenched around a different design, an implosion weapon that would become the Trinity device and then the Fat Man bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 3, 2023
It then made plutonium that fueled the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in August 1945, that led to the end of Word War II.
From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2022
From that material, the Los Alamos bomb makers would create the device known as Fat Man, the plutonium bomb dropped over Nagasaki three days after the Hiroshima bombing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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