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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 ...
The Fat Man weapon, containing a core of about 5 kg (11 lb) of plutonium, was dropped over the city's industrial valley. It exploded 47 seconds later at 11:02 Japanese Time [ 127 ] at 503 ± 10 m (1,650 ± 33 ft), above a tennis court, [ 207 ] halfway between the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works in the south and the Nagasaki Arsenal in the north.
Atom Bombs: The Top Secret, Inside Story of Little Boy and Fat Man John Coster-Mullen (21 December 1946 – 24 April 2021) was an American industrial photographer, truck driver and nuclear archaeologist who played an important role in creating a public record of the design of the first atomic bombs .
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]
Fat Man and Little Boy may refer to: Fat Man and Little Boy, collectively, atomic bombs used in World War II; Fat Man and Little Boy, 1989 film
A man has been found guilty of assault and prolonged domestic violence towards his partner, but cleared of her manslaughter. Kiena Dawes, 23, had written a suicide note saying, “Ryan Wellings ...
Manuel Uribe Garza (11 June 1965 – 26 May 2014) was a Mexican man who was morbidly obese to one of the greatest extents known in recorded history. [1] After reaching a peak weight of around 600 kg (1,300 lb) [2] and having been unable to leave his bed since 2002, [3] he lost approximately 230 kg (510 lb)—over one third of his body weight—with the help of doctors and nutritionists by ...
Hamdi Burwag, who lost 32 relatives in the storm, told The Independent that local officials warned the death toll could easily reach that figure, as nearly 7,000 had been confirmed killed and at ...