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videos, newyork, chicago film schedule, bock's car, nancy bell, soho press, prudence johnson, american essays, free, cartoon pictures, hobby photography, email, soundboards, movies, hip hop clothing, tracklisting, | Little Boy used the "gun-type" method of compressing two subcritical masses of fissionable material together to create a critical mass and thus a self-sustaining chain reaction. Little Boy was dropped muzzle velocity on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. Fat Man used the "implosion-type" method which proved more muzzle velocity efficient, though somewhat more bulky than the muzzle velocity gun-type. Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki on August 9th, 1945. The Manhattan Project was certainly the most costly and controversial military-industrial project up to that time and perhaps for all time. By 1944 it was costing over 1 billion dollars per year, in 1944 dollars. Some say it was worth it--in both lives and dollars ultimately saved. Some say it should never have been done. The argument, and the moral dilemma, will likely go on for eternity. More "Fat Man & Little Boy" Photos Questions or Comments Email Chuck Barbee Home Page Return to Table of Contents Last Update: 7/3/98 Web Author: Chuck Barbee Copyright © 1998 Charles L. |
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Paul Newman had a different, more pragmatic and perhaps more reasonable view of the historical truth of the story. He believes that Oppenheimer was no Faust and Groves no Mephistopheles. Each had a job to do in the interests soundboards of their country and each did it fiercely. Each, in his way, was soundboards a patriot. But Groves, as a military man, simply saw the Atomic soundboards Bomb as a way to end the war and a way to give his country the biggest stick in the playground. Oppenheimer, on the other hand, was torn. He was a man of peace, who probably believed that if we didn't get the bomb first, the Germans would. He was also a nuclear scientists and a human being who couldn't resist the temptation to take his life's work to its logical conclusion. The title, "Fat Man And Little Boy", refers not to Groves and Oppenheimer as some have mistakenly assumed, but rather to the nicknames given to the first two types of devices produced as a result of the Manhattan Project. |
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