Weaponeer on Nagasaki A-Bomb Dies at 94

Yahoo -AP ^ | 12/6/05

[Cyber Liberty]

Yer busted. Bock's Car is at Wright. I saw it on line. My wife and I were going to visit her, but Katrina was blowing through Ohio when we were there....

[Cyber Liberty]

Little Boy was tough to measure. I think it was the only U-235 bomb built. I could be wrong. I've been called an imbecile before....

[ErnBatavia]

http://www.cloudnet.com/~jfb/

(Briol was wifey's uncle)

[Paleo Conservative]

http://www.cloudnet.com/~jfb/

[ErnBatavia]

Thank you!

[COEXERJ145]

According to the official papers of the Manhattan Project, Little Boy was between 12.5 and 15 kilotons. More recent calculations have put it at closer to 12.5 kilotons than to 15.

[festus]

Mecca works just fine. During the Haj is even better.

Thats what I call carpet bombing...... ;-)

[stm]

Rest in peace, shipmate......

[Borges]

Thought you may be interested.

[chimera]

One of a few. There were some uranium-only weapons tested in the various programs following the war. Operation Ivy, for example, had the Ivy King test, a 500 kt uranium bomb, that was part of the program that produced the first thermonuclear explosion (Ivy Mike).

[Loud Mime]

My dad is a WWII pilot too, he's 82 and failing also. I found a neat Christmas present for him here.

Check it out

[Loud Mime]

very correct!

The plutonium bomb was the only weapon that was tested.

[A Jovial Cad]

Thank you for the *ping; I hadn't heard this sad news.

R.I.P., Admiral Ashworth.

[Ready4Freddy]

Haven't seen any articles yet today, the 61st Anniversary of Nagasaki, so I thought I'd bump this.

Happy Nagasaki Day, y'all! ;>)

[COEXERJ145]

Little Boy was 12.5-15 kilotons. Trinity and Fat Man were around 20-22 kilotons.

[SW6906]

Hero ping!

[Mark17]

I hate AP. Bockscar dropped "Fat Man" on Nagasaki. "Little Boy" was the Hiroshima bomb.

I wondered if anyone was going to point out their mistake. Good looking out.

[MrTed]