enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Fat Man - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Man

    Fat Man Replica of the original Fat Man bomb Type Nuclear fission gravity bomb Place of origin United States Production history Designer Los Alamos Laboratory Produced 1945–1949 No. built 120 Specifications Mass 10,300 pounds (4,670 kg) Length 128 inches (3.3 m) Diameter 60 inches (1.5 m) Filling Plutonium Filling weight 6.2 kg Blast yield 21 kt (88 TJ) "Fat Man" (also known as Mark III) was ...

  3. Trinity (nuclear test) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)

    The Trinity bomb was officially a Y-1561 device, as was the Fat Man used later in the bombing of Nagasaki. The two were very similar, though the Trinity bomb lacked fuzing and external ballistic casing. The bombs were still under development, and small changes continued to be made to the Fat Man design. [59]

  4. Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of...

    At 03:47 Tinian time (GMT+10), 02:47 Japanese time, [127] on the morning of 9 August 1945, Bockscar, flown by Sweeney's crew, lifted off from Tinian island with the Fat Man, with Kokura as the primary target and Nagasaki the secondary target. The mission plan for the second attack was nearly identical to that of the Hiroshima mission, with two ...

  5. Project Alberta - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alberta

    A Project Alberta Advance Party was created, consisting of Sheldon Dike for Air Force liaison, Theodore Perlman for Little Boy, and Victor Miller and Harlow Russ for Fat Man. The rest of the Fat Man team prepared the "Gadget", the case-less Fat Man bomb used for the Trinity nuclear test. Parsons and Warner had decided that the combat use of the ...

  6. An unsettling photo of a US physicist cheerfully ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/article/2016/05/16/an-unsettling...

    Weighing 14 pounds and responsible for 80,000 deaths, the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945, over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Related: Iconic photos from WWII:

  7. Nuclear weapon design - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design

    The Fat Man device specifically used 6.2 kg (14 lb), about 350 ml or 12 US fl oz in volume, of Pu-239, which is only 41% of bare-sphere critical mass (see Fat Man article for a detailed drawing). Surrounded by a U-238 reflector/tamper, the Fat Man's pit was brought close to critical mass by the neutron-reflecting properties of the U-238.

  8. Pumpkin bomb - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_bomb

    The pumpkin bombs were externally similar to the Fat Man bomb in size and shape, and both had the same 52-inch (130 cm) California Parachute square tail assembly and single-point attachment lug. The pumpkin bomb had three contact fuzes arranged in an equilateral triangle around the nose of the bomb while the atomic bomb had four fuse housings ...

  9. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!