The physicists working there were part of the ultra-secret Manhattan Project ... man, which man had acquired over nature.” A few weeks later, on August 6, Americans dropped the first atom bomb ...

Wendover AFB History Office Toward the end of 1943, Manhattan ... Man and the 10-foot-long, five-foot-diameter Fat Man. During these tests, a Thin Man replica escaped from its shackles before the ...

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 ...

Also during 1942, the Manhattan District of the Corps of Engineers was formed to construct three secret "cities" for major portions of atomic bomb development. At Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a nuclear ...