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Old Feb 18, 2007 | 3:03 pm
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Originally Posted by SFSC
It always seemed strange to me that the Hiroshima bomb was so different from the Fat Man.
I think that they wanted to try two different types of detonators. Also, I seem to recall that the Hiroshima bomb was uranium and the Nagasaki bomb was plutonium. And I think that there was difficulty in making enough enriched material for either. That might have had something to do with it.
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