80 years ago today, the US dropped Fat Man, the plutonium-powered implosion bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan. I'm visiting Los Alamos, where the bomb was built, and today saw this replica at the lab's Bradbury Science Museum. LANL is now building replacement plutonium pits at TA-55. Heavy thoughts.
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80 years ago today, the US dropped Fat Man, the plutonium-powered implosion bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan. I'm visiting Los Alamos, where the bomb was built, and today saw this replica at the lab's Bradbury Science Museum. LANL is now building replacement plutonium pits at TA-55. Heavy thoughts.
#History #LosAlamos #NewMexico #NuclearWar #AtomicBomb #WW2 #Science

My grandmother lived in Hiroshima prefecture, but not the city itself. She says she saw two suns, one to the east as it should be and another to the west. Her mum and sister initially dismissed her as she was known to daydream. But later, they realised that my grandma actually saw the bomb go off...
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My grandmother lived in Hiroshima prefecture, but not the city itself. She says she saw two suns, one to the east as it should be and another to the west. Her mum and sister initially dismissed her as she was known to daydream. But later, they realised that my grandma actually saw the bomb go off...
#hiroshima #atomicbomb