uranium gun-type bomb could be easily adapted from it. The gun-type and implosion-type designs were codenamed "Thin Man" and "Fat Man", respectively. These...

Laboratory during World War II, a reworking of their abandoned Thin Man nuclear bomb. Like Thin Man, it was a gun-type fission weapon. It derived its explosive...

the "Thin Man" because of its extreme length. It was thought that if a plutonium gun-type bomb could be created, then the uranium gun-type bomb would...

the bombs was superior to all other alternatives and saved Japanese as well as American lives. Fussell, Paul (1988). Thank God For The Atom Bomb, And...

called Thin Man. The names for all three atomic bomb designs—Fat Man, Thin Man, and Little Boy—were chosen by Serber based on their shapes. Thin Man was...

12,000 lb (5.4 t) Tallboy bomb 22,000 lb (10.0 t) Grand Slam bomb Firebombing Firestorm Pumpkin bomb, test Fat Man atom bomb casings filled with nearly...

order, to make the bomb. In June 1942, the U.S. Army established the Manhattan Engineer District to handle its part in the atom bomb project, beginning...

Superfortress could be modified to carry a Thin Man by joining its two bomb bays together. This became unnecessary after Thin Man was abandoned, as a Little Boy was...

in the bombing of Nagasaki (Fat Man), was based on plutonium. The original design considered for a weapon based on plutonium-239 was Thin Man, in which...

Stalin and the Bomb, pp. 351–352. Holloway, Stalin and the Bomb, pp. 352–353. Pfau, No Sacrifice Too Great, pp. 185–186. Hewlett and Holl, Atoms for Peace...