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    "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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Chinese punk band "Thin Man", a song from the 1996 album Nine Objects of Desire by Suzanne Vega Thin Man (nuclear bomb), an early nuclear weapon design named...
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    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...
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    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...
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    undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War II. These...
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  • Mark II, an American bolt-action rifle Thin Man nuclear bomb or Mark 2 nuclear bomb (1945), a gun-type plutonium bomb Mark II, a variant of the British Mark...
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    Bomb pulse Effects of nuclear explosions on human health Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents List of nuclear weapons tests Nuclear warfare...
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    list of nuclear weapons listed according to country of origin, and then by type within the states. American nuclear weapons of all types – bombs, warheads...
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    atomic bomb project was the classified research and development program that was authorized by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union to develop nuclear weapons...
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    mass was formed, producing a "fizzle"—a nuclear explosion many times smaller than a full explosion. The Thin Man design would therefore not work. Project...
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  • A cobalt bomb is a type of "salted bomb": a nuclear weapon designed to produce enhanced amounts of radioactive fallout, intended to contaminate a large...
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    bombs, developed concurrently during the war: a relatively simple gun-type fission weapon and a more complex implosion-type nuclear weapon. The Thin Man...
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    often called the "father of the atomic bomb" for his role in overseeing the development of the first nuclear weapons. Born in New York City, Oppenheimer...
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    Project Y (category Former nuclear research institutes)
    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...
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    Oscillatory universe Static spherically symmetric perfect fluid Thin Man (nuclear bomb) Gale, George (2014), "Tolman, Richard Chace", Biographical Encyclopedia...
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    larger in the decades since. A nuclear weapon, also known as an atomic bomb, possesses enormous destructive power from nuclear fission, or a combination of...
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    The Bomb: A Life. Random House. p. 95. ISBN 9781446449615. Tannenwald, Nina (2007). The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons...
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  • (bomb) Fat Man (nuclear bomb) GB-4 LBD Gargoyle Little Boy (nuclear bomb) M47 bomb Mark 65 bomb Pelican (bomb) Pumpkin bomb Thin Man (nuclear bomb) VB-6...
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    time to escape the ensuing blast. The earliest gravity nuclear bombs (Little Boy and Fat Man) of the United States could only be carried, during the...
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    extinction. To date, the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict occurred in 1945 with the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August...
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  • endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. The film is named after "Little Boy" and "Fat Man", the two bombs dropped on the Japanese...
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    Silverplate (category Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    carry the 17-foot (5.2 m) long Thin Man, so a 9-foot (2.7 m) scale model was used. The results were disappointing – the bomb fell in a flat spin – but the...
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    famine. When developing computer models of nuclear-winter scenarios, researchers use the conventional bombing of Hamburg, and the Hiroshima firestorm in...
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    William Sterling Parsons (category People associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    the aircraft which dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945. To avoid the possibility of a nuclear explosion if the aircraft crashed and burned...
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    atmospheric radioactivity after the widespread nuclear weapons testing of the 1950s, peaking in 1963 (the Bomb pulse). Levels reached about 0.15 mSv per year...
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    produce plutonium for use in Cold War atomic bombs were the Hanford nuclear site, in Washington, and Mayak nuclear plant, in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Over...
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    Robert Serber (category People associated with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
    contrast to the "Thin Man" bomb. This differs from the unsupported, abandoned theory that "Fat Man" was named after Churchill and "Thin Man" after Roosevelt...
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    "Nuclear Weapon Accidents" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2012. Retrieved 9 November 2014. "The atomic bomb test for 'Fat Man'"....
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