This image from 1945 shows Manhattan Project physicist Harold ... the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945, over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Fat Man was the ...

The President-elect dubbed DOGE as a potential ‘Manhattan ... types of bombs – a uranium-based bomb called ‘the Little Boy’ ...

Fat Man, and Little Boy. Testing world's first atomic bomb On July 16, scientists from the Manhattan Project conducted the first test of an implosive-type plutonium bomb, called Trinity.

The Manhattan Project National Historical Park ... Within a month of the Trinity test, two bombs -- Little Boy and Fat Man -- were dropped on the two cities in Japan, killing tens of thousands ...

Weighing 14 pounds and responsible for approximately 80,000 deaths, the heart of the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945, over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Nicknamed after ...

Physics graduate Ben Bederson was 22 when he applied to join the Manhattan Project ... was to test ignition switches for the atomic bomb “Fat Man”, which was later used on Nagasaki.

Harrison S. Brown is a nuclear chemist and geochemist who worked on ways to separate plutonium from uranium at the Manhattan Project’s Metallurgical Laboratory during the war. The techniques he helped ...

"Gadget," the first atomic bomb — a 6-foot sphere with a grapefruit-sized Plutonium core, covered in cables — was born out of the Albert Einstein-inspired Manhattan Project, and was detonated ...