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
Fat Man and Little Boy are holding steady. apnews.com/article/dei-...
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2025
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
Fat Man was loaded into a B-29, and Sweeney and his crew took off and flew toward Japan early on the morning of August 9.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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