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Fat Man, the atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki

61-56
Accession Number
61-56
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
Related Collection
HST Keywords
Atom Bomb
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Harry S. Truman Library & Museum.

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Description
Nuclear Weapon of the "Fat Man" type, the kind detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II. he-bomb is 60-inches in diameter and 128- inches long'. The second nuclear weapon to be detonated. it weighed about 10,000 pounds and had a yield of equivalent to approximately 20,000 tons of high explosive.
Date(s)
ca.
1945