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2021
April 2021
25Photograph of John Coster-Mullen by Alex Wellerstein, 2015
Meditations | News and Notes
In Memoriam: John Coster-Mullen (1946-2021)
Reflections on the life of John-Coster Mullen (1946-2021), the truck driver who sought nuclear history and secrets.
Tags: 2020s, Bomb design, Books, Fat Man, Leaks, Little Boy, Speculation
2014
November 2014
14
Visions
Visualizing fissile materials
Experiments in representing the atomic bomb and the substances that fuel it.
Tags: 1980s, 2010s, Bomb design, Books, Chuck Hansen, Fat Man, Graphic design, John Coster-Mullen, Little Boy, plutonium, Speculation
10
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The Fat Man's uranium
The Trinity and Fat Man atomic bombs were powered primarily by plutonium — but not exclusively.
Tags: 1940s, Bomb design, Fat Man, Little Boy, Los Alamos, Nagasaki, Nuclear testing, Trinity
2013
August 2013
 9
Meditations
Why Nagasaki?
Why was a second bomb used against Japan, so soon after Hiroshima? A review of several theories.
Tags: 1940s, Fat Man, Harry S. Truman, Hiroshima, Historiography, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Leslie Groves, Little Boy, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki
2012
May 2012
25
Visions
James Conant's Atomic Bomb Sketch? (1943)
Did the President of Harvard draw an atomic bomb in 1943?
Tags: 1940s, Bomb design, Little Boy, Manhattan Project, Vannevar Bush
16
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The Hiroshima Do-Over (1963)
Why Norris Bradbury didn't want to build the bomb... again. And what they ended up eventually doing about it.
Tags: 1960s, Bad ideas, Civil Defense, Fat Man, Hiroshima, Little Boy, Los Alamos, Nuclear testing
2011
November 2011
 8
Meditations
The Mysterious Design of Little Boy
Tags: 1940s, Bomb design, J. Robert Oppenheimer, John Coster-Mullen, Leaks, Little Boy, Smyth Report, Speculation, William L. Laurence
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