Key Points and Summary - The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental releases, or other serious mishaps. -Most were ...
Manhattan Project scientists working on the Thin Man plutonium gun assembly. Two atomic bombs nicknamed Little Boy and Fat Man were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, effectively ...
Many Americans—including students in the History of the Atomic Bomb course taught at the University of Texas at Austin by Bruce J. Hunt, A&S '84 (PhD)—have learned a version of this story: On Aug. 6, ...