Fat Man
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Fat Man and Little Boy are holding steady. apnews.com/article/dei-...
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2025
The Fat Man bomb was dropped on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945, three days after Hiroshima was devastated by Little Boy.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023
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, a plutonium bomb of the kind tested at Trinity, was used on Nagasaki on Aug. 9, and the end of World War II soon followed.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2021
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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