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tatersolidtoday at 6:37 PM1 replyview on HN

Clarification/correction:

The Nagasaki “Fat Man” bomb was the same plutonium implosion design tested at Trinity.

The Hiroshima “Little Boy” bomb was the uranium “gun” design that was never tested before combat use The physics and engineering were comparably straightforward the scientists were very sure it would work assuming the Urnaium enrichment was pure enough.


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hylaridetoday at 6:39 PM

Ugh. You're right. Thanks.