"Thin Man" was the code name for a proposed plutonium-fueled gun-type nuclear bomb that the United States was developing during the Manhattan Project...

their abandoned Thin Man nuclear bomb. Like Thin Man, it was a gun-type fission weapon. It derived its explosive power from the nuclear fission of uranium-235...

Sweeney. The name Fat Man refers to the early design of the bomb because it had a wide, round shape. Fat Man was an implosion-type nuclear weapon with a solid...

based on the novel Thin Man (nuclear bomb), an early nuclear weapon design named after Dashiell Hammett's character. The Thin Man, a character in the...

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...

proposed Thin Man Gun assembly type bomb would not work for plutonium because of predetonation problems caused by Pu-240 impurities. So Fat Man, the implosion-type...

plutonium called Thin Man. In April 1944, the Los Alamos Laboratory determined that the rate of spontaneous fission in plutonium bred in a nuclear reactor was...

mass was formed, producing a "fizzle"—a nuclear explosion many times smaller than a full explosion. The Thin Man design would therefore not work. The Laboratory...

Oscillatory universe Static spherically symmetric perfect fluid Thin Man (nuclear bomb) Gale, George (2014), "Tolman, Richard Chace", Biographical Encyclopedia...

undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War II. These...