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Hace 4 días · The project resulted in two types of atomic bombs, developed concurrently during the war: a relatively simple gun-type fission weapon and a more complex implosion-type nuclear weapon. The Thin Man gun-type design proved impractical to use with plutonium, so a simpler gun-type design called Little Boy was developed that used uranium-235.
Hace 4 días · 15 October 1966. The Los Alamos Laboratory, also known as Project Y, was a secret laboratory established by the Manhattan Project and operated by the University of California during World War II. Its mission was to design and build the first atomic bombs.
Hace 2 días · The Day After Trinity, a 1980 documentary about Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb, was nominated for an Academy Award and received a Peabody Award. Oppenheimer's life is explored in Tom Morton-Smith's 2015 play Oppenheimer, and the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy, where he was portrayed by Dwight Schultz.
Hace 5 días · On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the Little Boy bomb on Hiroshima, a city of 350,000 people that was an important military and industrial center. The bomb, which had a yield equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT, detonated directly over the city, instantly killing an estimated 70,000 people and destroying nearly 90% of the city‘s ...
Hace 2 días · Manneken-Pis: The real story behind the iconic statue. Wednesday, 5 August 2015. Manneken-Pis, literally “little man pee,” in the Dutch dialect of Marols or “le petit Julien,” in French, is one of Brussels’ most famous and beloved citizens. But what’s the story behind this iconic, if tiny, figure?
Hace 2 días · Once discovered, the basic physics underlying the bomb seemed almost simple: bombard a uranium nucleus, and the resulting split atom would release a huge amo...
Hace 2 días · The "Fat Man" bomb's delivery over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, marked a tragic chapter in world history. ... "Little Boy," dropped on Hiroshima, and "Fat Man," detonated over Nagasaki.
