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Old Sep 26, 2007 | 9:27 pm
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Originally Posted by airmotive
Ahhh...a good teaser to the Jumbo story!
My source is "Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943-1945".

I thought that book had the full story on Jumbo, but it does end with 1945 so it isn't really complete.

They also built one-tenth scale Jumbinos for testing. The Jumbinos had holes blown out from the explosions and were left in a trash dump. They were rediscovered many years later by a jogger.
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