Fat Man

American  

noun

1. the code name for the plutonium-core, implosion-type atom bomb the U.S. first tested and then dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.

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• Fat Man vs. Little Boy

Example Sentences

On stage, Fisher-Becker appeared in productions of “The Busybody,” “The Emperor of the Moon,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Macbeth” and a one-man show of “Hamlet: Tragedy of a Fat Man.”

From Los Angeles Times

Fat Man and Little Boy are holding steady. apnews.com/article/dei-...

From Salon

“You couldn’t beat a fat man,” he mocked Klitschko before a scheduled rematch which never happened.

From BBC

Among a wealth of actual and facsimile objects used in development and testing are an identical shell casing of the Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, and a replica of the actual bomb that it would have encased.

From New York Times

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