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To: steve86

Good point. Our first test of an air drop was on Hiroshima.


5 posted on 04/11/2013 8:34:27 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: BenLurkin

Correct, I keep forgetting that, even though we are a Hanford family from way back (Nagasaki material).


8 posted on 04/11/2013 8:44:15 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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To: BenLurkin
Re: “Our first test of an air drop was on Hiroshima.”

That was also our first test of a uranium-based gun type bomb.

The bomb dropped on Nagasaki was an implosion type plutonium device, which had been tested in the desert about 3 weeks prior.

17 posted on 04/11/2013 9:47:55 PM PDT by zeestephen
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