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To: Pelham

Little boy is basically a rilfle barrel

Cordite at top fired by ignited by primer set off by barometric device and Archie radar

Blows I think less enriched uranium down barrel, into more enriched or vice versa causing nuke explosion

Simpler than I would have figured


85 posted on 01/20/2022 5:10:26 PM PST by wardaddy (Do we really think a culture vested in transgenderism can defeat 6000 years of mankind so easily...)
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To: wardaddy

Yeah it looks real simple compared to Fat Man. Looks like both the “bullet” and the target were U-235 according to wiki. Thin Man was “inefficient” wasting unexploded U-235 I guess. The two bombs were named for Hammett pulp fiction, The Thin Man stories and Fat Man after a character in The Maltese Falcon.


91 posted on 01/20/2022 8:31:11 PM PST by Pelham (Q is short for quack )
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