Fat Man, and Little Boy. Testing world's first atomic bomb On July 16, scientists from the Manhattan Project conducted the first test of an implosive-type plutonium bomb, called Trinity.

The Fat Man bomb was fueled by plutonium created at the Hanford nuclear reservation, at the time a secret operation near the Tri-Cities. And three-quarters of a century after Hanford was created ...

The report stated Ukraine could build a device using plutonium, similar to technology the U.S. used to develop the "Fat Man" bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945. According to the Times, the report ...

An analytical memo prepared for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense suggests that Ukraine could quickly develop a basic plutonium-based device using technology similar to the Fat Man bomb dropped on ...

A mushroom cloud rises into the atmosphere after the atomic bomb named “Fat Man” was detonated over Nagasaki in Japan on on Aug. 9, 1945. The plutonium powered bomb was 40% more powerful than ...

I had already visited Nagasaki, where the US military used a plutonium bomb codenamed Fat Man, very similar in design and yield to The Gadget tested in New Mexico. Fat Man laid a city to waste, ...

The Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, was fueled with plutonium produced at the Hanford nuclear reservation site in Eastern Washington. The Manhattan Project National ...