Fat Man
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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
I asked him if the bombs that our enemies had were as big as Little Boy and Fat Man, the bombs that had destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 31, 2022
The encores were Little Boy, dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, and Fat Man, dropped over Nagasaki on August 9.
From Salon • Sep. 30, 2018
Fat Man exploded over the city of Nagasaki with the force of 22,000 tons of TNT.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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