plutonium bomb
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That bongo-playing physicist glimpsed at the Trinity plutonium bomb test in the New Mexico desert?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
At 11:02 a.m., the moment the B-29 bomber dropped a plutonium bomb, Nagasaki survivors and other participants in the ceremony stood in a minute of silence to honor more than 70,000 lives lost.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 8, 2021
The Hiroshima hydrogen bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945, and the Nagasaki plutonium bomb was dropped three days later, on August 9, 1945.
From US News ● May 10, 2016
On Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a plutonium bomb on Nagasaki, a gram of matter again flashed into energy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2015
Hall handed Sax two pages of handwritten notes—everything he’d learned about the plutonium bomb so far.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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