Re: Another Ear Question

In article <sLydnW2nL9DpOpnbnZ2dnUVZ_v2knZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>, none@xxxxxxx
says...


For extra credit, where did the names "Fat Boy" and "Thin Man" get
used over a similar difference between items designed for the same
purpose? Rely on your own memory, please before searching the net.

Peter Wieck
Wyncote, PA

Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, 1st uranium, 2nd plutonium, nukes dropped in ww2.
Truman called them "military targets", but they weren't. I think Nagasaki was
a second choice on that bombing run, choosen due to weather. Was fat boy an
implosion type, and thin man a "bullet type"? The "Enola Gay" was the name of
the Hiroshima bound bomber, named after the pilot's mom. John Hershey wrote a
good book about Hiroshima. The name of the air base in the pacific that the
bombers took off from began with a "T", I think. Japan surrendered soon
after.
The russians were pissed by this, because they wanted northern japan.
Hiroshima was picked as a target because it had little damage from previous
bombing, and the effects of "the bomb" would be clearer. The bombs were
developed at Los Alamos, New Mexico. A pipe-smoking physicist, whose name
escapes me, but I think a german name, ending in "ing",later said to be a
pinko, headed the project. He quoted the Bhagava-gita, I think something
about
Shiva, the destroyer, when the first nuke was exploded on a tower in New
Mexico. They thought that there was a small chance that the atmosphere might
ignite in a chain reaction, and destroy the world. That's what I remember, no
googling allowed. Oh, yeah, on topic- they use vac tubes today in nukes 'cuz
they are really fast doing something technical that I don't remember.


After googling, I found this on tubes and bombs:

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Library/Pasley1.html

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