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Fat Man
"
Fat Man
" was the
codename
for the type of
atomic bomb
that was
detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki
by the United States on 9 August 1945. It was the second of the only two nuclear weapons ever used in
warfare
, the first being
Little Boy
, and its detonation caused the third man-made nuclear explosion. It was built by scientists and engineers at
Los Alamos Laboratory
using
plutonium
from the
Hanford Site
and dropped from the
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Bockscar
. For the Fat Man mission,
Bockscar
was piloted by
Major
Charles W. Sweeney
.
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