70 years ago today: The Little Boy bomb (L-11) is fully assembled. It awaits any good weather day after August 3rd.pic.twitter.com/UnhrxWZ4PJ
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70 years ago today: The Little Boy bomb (L-11) is fully assembled. It awaits any good weather day after August 3rd.pic.twitter.com/UnhrxWZ4PJ
@wellerstein The man painting the bomb is Francis Birch. Watching him on the right is future Nobel Prize-winning physicist Norman Ramsey.
@matthewcobb The dark paint was anti-rust, for the tropical atmosphere. The numbers are because they had numerous spare and test casings.
@wellerstein Why did it matter if it rusted??? How quick does rust act? It's a bomb! Seems like engineers doing what engineers do, no?
@matthewcobb Also: the casings were fabricated a long earlier than the actual use of the bombs.
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