70 years ago today: At Tinian, the Little Boy bomb's projectile, inserts, and initiators are installed.pic.twitter.com/TqJH8JKEXL
@wellerstein Note that the unit in front here, L-1, is not the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, which was L-11. L-1 was test-dropped on July 23rd.
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@wellerstein An amazing story of the weapon fuel is told by Bertrand Goldschmidt in his "Atomic Rivals" book http://catalog.denverlibrary.org/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.6&pos=1 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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