[MtnClimber]

Lots of very interesting photos of assembly and loading of WWII atomic weapons.

[Artemis Webb]

Too cool!

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[mosesdapoet]

No Pix No clicks

[Williams]

Was there radiation exposure to those handling the assembled bomb?

[eyeamok]

Way Cool!!

[ealgeone]

Fascinating period of time. Thanks for posting.

[southland]

Bookmark

[Flick Lives]

Interesting. I had no idea the bomb was so large, relative to the B-29, that it required a special bomb pit to hold the bomb prior to loading in the aircraft. Very involved.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[Chode]

always wondered why the pics of Fatman had painted seams

[Vermont Lt]

Nice articles. Thanks for posting.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Subtitled “Things That Go Boom In The Night”.

[buckalfa]

Thank you for the article. Brought back memories of my grandfather who worked at both the Oak Ridge and Hanover sites during the Manhattan project.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Interesting. The Norman Ramsey identified in one of the early photographs later won the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the Ramsey inferometer, the heart of atomic clocks. He spent his post war career as a professor at Harvard. The Ramsey inferometer is a quantum mechanical device unrelated to his work on the atomic bomb.

[Rebelbase]

The loading photos are a historical record of the last day before the world changed forever.

Gone With The Wind II.

[Lurker]

Ping

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[Texas Fossil]

Thanks for posting.

[Zathras]

Cool!
I’ve never seen the proposed “Thin Man” casing design.
No wonder they were worried about getting it off the ground.