Fat Man
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"Fat Man" was the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945. It was the second of two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare to date (the other being "Little Boy"), and its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion. The name also refers more generically to the early nuclear weapon designs of U.S. weapons based on the "Fat Man" model. It was an implosion-type weapon with a plutonium core, similar to "The Gadget", the experimental device detonated only a month earlier on July 16 at Alamogordo Air Field, New Mexico.
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See also
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- Bockscar
- Enola Gay
- Fat Man and Little Boy, a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project
- The gadget
- Little Boy
- RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic device, closely modeled after "Fat Man"
- Thin Man nuclear bomb
- Trinity test
- Tsar Bomba aka Kuzka's mother
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