Working away from home….will be back in august….see ya
Central Park Manhattan
Madame Tussaud New York
!!! New stuff in the following days.What would you want to see?
iulie 11, 2009
februarie 28, 2009
Manhattan Project…history in 2 parts…part 2 “FAT MAN”..(pentru ca trebuie sa fie in engleza)
| Type | Nuclear weapon |
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| Place of origin | United States |
| Specifications | |
| Weight | 10,200 lbs (4,630 kg) |
| Length | 10.6 Feet (3.25m) |
| Diameter | 5 Feet (1.52m) |
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| Blast yield | 21 kilotons |
Fat Man is the codename for the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons to be used in warfare and was the third man-made nuclear explosion. The name also refers more generically to the early nuclear weapon designs of U.S. weapons based on the “Fat Man” model. It was an implosion-type weapon with a plutonium core.
Fat Man was possibly named after Winston Churchill, though Robert Serber said in his memoirs that as the “Fat Man” bomb was round and fat, he named it after Sydney Greenstreet’s character of “Kasper Gutman” in The Maltese Falcon. The design of “Fat Man” nuclear assembly was substantially the same as “the gadget” detonated at the Trinity test in July 1945.
“Fat Man” was detonated at an altitude of about 1,800 feet (550 m) over the city, and was dropped from a B-29 bomber Bockscar, piloted by Major Charles Sweeney of the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy. The bomb had a yield of about 21 kilotons of TNT, or 8.78×1013 joules = 88 TJ (terajoules). Because of Nagasaki’s hilly terrain, the damage was somewhat less extensive than that in relatively flat Hiroshima. An estimated 39,000 people were killed outright by the bombing at Nagasaki, and about 25,000 were injured. Thousands more would die later from related blast and burn injuries, and hundreds more from radiation illnesses from exposure to the bomb’s initial radiations. The aerial bombing raid on Nagasaki had the third highest fatality rate in World War II after the nuclear strike on Hiroshima and the March 9/10 1945 fire bombing raid on Tokyo.
The nuclear weapon “Fat Man” was dropped on the city of Nagasaki on Thursday August 9, 1945/11:02 (Nagasaki time).
The bombs killed as many as 80,000 people in Nagasaki.
The Fat Man mushroom cloud resulting from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rises 18 km (11 mi, 60,000 ft) into the air from the hypocenter.
Before 9 August 1945 and the next days
Nagasaki present day
Manhattan Project…history in 2 parts…part 1 “LITTLE BOY”..(pentru ca trebuie sa fie in engleza)
| Type | Nuclear weapon |
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| Place of origin | United States |
| Specifications | |
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| Weight | 8,818.49 lbs. 4,000 kg |
| Length | 9.84 ft. 3.0 m |
| Diameter | 2.3 ft. 0.7 m |
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| Blast yield | 13 to 18 kiloto |
Little Boy was the codename of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima, on August 6, 1945 by the B-29 Super fortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets in the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb ever used as a weapon, and was dropped three days before the “Fat Man” bomb was used against Nagasaki.
The weapon was developed by the Manhattan Project during World War II. It derived its explosive power from the nuclear fission of uranium 235. The Hiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history (the first was the “Trinity” test), and it was the first uranium-based detonation. Approximately 600 milligrams of mass were converted into energy. It exploded with a destructive power equivalent to between 13 and 18 kilotons of TNT (estimates vary) and killed approximately 140,000 people. Its design was never tested at the Trinity test site (unlike Fat Man), due to the fact that enriched uranium was very rare at the time, and the United States
The nuclear weapon “Little Boy” was dropped on the city of Hiroshima on Monday August 6, 1945/08:15 (Hiroshima time).
The bombs killed as many as 140,000 people in Hiroshima.
The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima after the dropping of Little Boy
Before 6 August 1945
Before 6 August 1945 and the next days
Hiroshima present day
