To: Harmless Teddy Bear
We had four of them. One was Trinity, one was Little Boy, one was Fat Man and the fourth was unused.
Sorry, we had only two. The others were used in tests prior to dropping Little Boy. Truman gambled that Little Boy would force Japan to capitulate and, when it didn't, he authorized Dropping Fat Man and crossed his fingers. There was nothing else in the pipeline had the Japanese not capitulated on August 12th.
61 posted on
08/06/2006 11:04:35 AM PDT by
DustyMoment
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To: DustyMoment
See post #55.
There were four bombs built with uranium that we got from Canada. There was only one test.
There were more in the pipeline and we did continue to build them until the 1946 test at Bikini Atoll when we abandon atom for nuclear.
Hanford was turning out enough plutonium to produce one bomb a week. Maybe no more Little Boy's but we could have produced a multitude of Fat Man.
66 posted on
08/06/2006 11:13:58 AM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
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