Fat Man
Fat Man is the name of the second atomic bomb ever made from plutonium and the second atomic bomb to be used in nuclear warfare. It is called Fat Man because of the round shape. It was dropped over the Japanese island of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.[1] More than a hundred of this kind were made after World War II.
Fat Man Media
Replica mockup of a Fat Man displayed in the National Museum of the United States Air Force, beside the Bockscar B-29 that dropped the original device – black liquid asphalt sealant was sprayed over the original bomb casing's seams, simulated on the mockup.
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Small-scale slow-motion cut-away of shaped-charge implosion device.
Fat Man's detonation method
Fat Man's "physics package" nuclear device about to be encased
Fat Man on its transport carriage, with liquid asphalt sealant applied over the casing's seams
Preserved Tinian "bomb pit#2", where Fat Man was loaded aboard Bockscar
Mushroom cloud after Fat Man exploded over Nagasaki on 9 August 1945
Detonation of the Mark III 'Fat Man' and ensuing mushroom cloud.
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