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	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Fat Man" is the codename of the atomic bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States on August 9, 1945.
		The names for all three projects ("Fat Man", "Thin Man", and "Little Boy") were created by Robert Serber, a former student of Los Alamos director Robert Oppenheimer's who worked on the project.
		Below is a diagram of the main parts of the "Fat Man" bomb itself, followed by a more detailed look at the different materials used in the physics package of the bomb (the part responsible for the nuclear detonation).
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Fat_Man (1070 words)

	Encyclopedia: Fat Man and Little Boy
		Little Boy was the code name of the atomic bomb which was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 by the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay piloted by Lt....
		Little Boy was dropped from a B-29 Superfortress, the Enola Gay piloted by Lt. Col.
		Little Boy used the "gun-type" method of compressing two subcritical masses of fissionable material together to create a critical mass and thus a self-sustaining chain reaction.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fat-Man-and-Little-Boy (897 words)

	Fat Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Numerous detonators located on the surface of the high explosive were fired simultaneously to produce a powerful inward pressure on the core, squeezing it and increasing its density, resulting in a supercritical condition and a nuclear explosion.
		Immediately after the bombings of Japan, the United States produced a technical history of the Manhattan Project, known as the Smyth Report, that did not disclose the information that the "Fat Man" device was different from the "Little Boy" device, and did not imply that a different method was required for plutonium weapons.
		It was eventually re-worked in the MK 4 Fat Man bomb, which was similar in principle but was appropriate for long-term stockpiling, use by non-experts, and used a more efficient implosion system (with a 60 point implosion system, compared to the 32 point weapon used in the war).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fat_Man (1187 words)

	Fat Man and Little Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fat Man and Little Boy (aka Shadow Makers in the UK) is a 1989 film that reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret Allied endeavor to develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II.
		It is named after the nuclear weapons known as "Fat Man" and "Little Boy", and also potentially as a reference to the portly Gen.
		Leslie R. Groves and the lithe Robert Oppenheimer, respectively the military and scientific heads of the project.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fat_Man_and_Little_Boy (269 words)

	Fat Man and Little Boy - DVD Movie Central
		Fat Man and Little Boy, which traces the concept of the bomb all the way to its testing.
		Fat Man and Little Boy does offer up a intriguing look at a little known chapter in the course of WWII, one that would precede a largely remembered chapter in WWII.
		Fat Man and Little Boy is a most intriguing account of what went into the creation that would lead up to one of the most documented moments in our nation’s history.
	www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/fat_man_little_boy.htm (697 words)

	Behind The Scenes Documentary - "Fat Man and Little Boy"
		The title, "Fat Man And Little Boy", refers not to Groves and Oppenheimer as some have mistakenly assumed, but rather to the nicknames given to the first two types of devices produced as a result of the Manhattan Project.
		Little Boy used the "gun-type" method of compressing two subcritical masses of fissionable material together to create a critical mass and thus a self-sustaining chain reaction.
		Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945.
	www.barbeefilm.com /fatman01.htm (1030 words)

	Los Alamos National Laboratory: History: Building the Atomic Bomb: Little Boy and Fat Man
		This new plutonium bomb, called Fat Man, was such a radical departure from established technology that doubts about its success made necessary the test, codenamed Trinity, conducted in July 1945.
		Little Boy exploded over Hiroshima with a force of approximately fourteen kilotons on August 6, 1945.
		Fat Man exploded over Nagasaki with a force of twenty kilotons on August 9, 1945.
	www.lanl.gov /history/atomicbomb/littleboyandfatman.shtml (591 words)

	A-Bomb WWW Museum ~ June,1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Little Boy was dropped from the Enola Gay, one of the B-29 bombers that flew over Hiroshima on that day.
		The people who saw the Little Boy often say "We saw another sun in the sky when it exploded." The heat and the light generated by the Little Boy were far stronger than bombs which they had seen before.
		Though the amount of energy generated by the bomb dropped to Nagasaki was significantly larger than that of the Little Boy, the damage given to the city was slighter than that given to Hiroshima due to the geographic structure of the city.
	www.csi.ad.jp /ABOMB/index.html (1111 words)

	DVD Savant Review: Fat Man and Little Boy
		Fat Man and Little Boy tries to give us a reasoned picture of the conflict between the hawkish General Groves and the liberal J. Robert Oppenheimer and ends up doing neither of them justice.
		Fat Man and Little Boy gets the basics right: A lot of the Europeans contributed to the project for fear that Hitler would get the bomb first, but then questioned why it had to be built when Germany fell and Japan was near defeat anyway.
		Fat Man and Little Boy is a very liberal picture that paints the birth of the bomb as a bad thing but is too chicken to say what made it bad, i.e., the post-war politics that turned the country into a Cold War furnace of fear and aggression.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s1198fat.html (1632 words)

	Fat Man & Little Boy - Lesson Plans from Movies and Film - Manhattan Project, Atomic Bomb, Oppenheimer
		"Fat Man and Little Boy" is the story of the Manhattan Project through which the U.S. developed the atomic bomb.
		It focuses on the uneasy relationship between the Pentagon general in charge of the project, General Lesley Groves and J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientific director of he project.
		"Fat Man and Little Boy" will give children a picture of the development of the atomic bomb that will stay with them for years.
	www.teachwithmovies.org /guides/fat-man-little-boy.html (681 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Fat Man And Little Boy (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		"Fat Man and Little Boy" is a fiction based on the Manhattan Project, but it is thin and unfocused and hardly even suggests the enormous moral and practical questions that the scientists wrestled with in the New Mexico desert.
		"Fat Man and Little Boy" reduces their debates to the childish level of Hollywood stereotyping, giving us a simplified personality conflict between Gen. Groves (Paul Newman) and J. Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz), the scientific leader of the undertaking.
		Much of the imagery in "Fat Man" is obviously inspired by the earlier documentary footage, including such details as what the first bomb looked like and how odd it was suspended in a tower in the desert.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID%3D/19891020/REVIEWS/910200301/1023 (1024 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Fat Man and Little Boy at Epinions.com
		Fat Man and Little Boy takes a remarkably neutral stance on the controversy surrounding the decision to use nuclear weapons on Japan.
		Fat Man and Little Boy is most effective when it gets away from the esoteric details about nuclear physics and gets into the political infighting and subterfuges which Groves resorted to in order to keep his eccentric civilian scientists in line and get the job done.
		Lacking in dramatic impact and restrained from glamorous pyrotechnics, Fat Man and Little Boy is still a riveting portrayal of the man who let the nuclear genie out of the bottle.
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	If You Don't Get It... We Don't Care!
		Fat Man and Little Boy is a great telling of a great story.
		The atomic bomb was a theoretical possibility for years, but no one was given the incredible budget (2 billion 1940 dollars) to build one until the United States and Germany both attempted it during the war.
		Fat Man and Little Boy is both detailed and personal.
	www.lowcomdom.com /film/f/fat_man_and_little_boy.html (280 words)

	Our Man on the Manhattan Project
		Fat Man And Little Boy was conceived, written, and directed by Roland Joffé, who has a distinguished reputation as director of The Killing Fields and The Mission, and a penchant for casting nonactors in parts they play in real life.
		Fat Man And Little Boy (the title refers to the code names of the atomic bombs dropped, respectively, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) chronicles the history of the Manhattan Project from its start in 1942 through the successful Trinity Test in 1944, to the August 1945 bombing of Hiroshima.
		Politzer's involvement in Fat Man and Little Boy came about last spring as Joffé and his casting director were getting ready to cast real scientists in their movie and realized they didn't know any.
	pr.caltech.edu /periodicals/CaltechNews/articles/politzer.html (1508 words)

	'Fat Man and Little Boy'
		n atomic bomb called "Fat Man and Little Boy" has dropped on your local theaters and among those caught in the mushroom cloud are Paul Newman, John Cusack, Bonnie Bedelia -- and possibly the worst "J. Robert Oppenheimer" ever to chainsmoke his way through a docudrama.
		"Fat Man," a dramatization of America's 19-month race to build the bomb, a k a the Manhattan Project, is not resoundingly disastrous.
		"Fat Man" seems unsure of which human story to concentrate on.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/fatmanandlittleboypg13howe_a0b238.htm (312 words)

	Fat Man vs. Little Boy
		As the Fat Man got up to continue his pursuit of the Little Boy, hoping that it wouldn't be necessary to go up the stairs again, he heard the front door open.
		The Fat Man walked into the dining room, where he met a dark-haired woman who was holding the Little Boy protectively in her arms.
		The Little Boy leaped from his mother's arms and ran to the Fat Man, grabbing as much of the over-sized belly as he could between his little arms.
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	Little Boy & Fat Man (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This explosion-type uranium bomb, Little Boy, was considerably less complicated in design than the plutonium Fat Man implosion weapon.
		Unlike Fat Man, Little Boy was armed prior to flight.
		Little Boy was relatively easy to detonate, using a standard explosion trigger, called the "gun" method.
	users.tellurian.net /ldelo/rm210/will/5.HTM (175 words)

	Fat Man & Little Boy movie for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Director Roland Joffé's FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY is a historical drama about the lives of the participants in the Manhattan Project--the making and perfecting of the atomic bomb that took place in New Mexico during World War II.
		FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY is the story of the feisty military man and the mercurial scientist who, together, change the course of World War II--and humanity--with the invention of the nuclear bomb.
		Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, only 21 days after the test bomb was dropped at the Trinity site in New Mexico.
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	Little Boy and Fat Man nuclear weapons
		Little Boy was dropped from a B-29 bomber piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets.
		Fat Man was the second nuclear weapon used in warfare.
		While Little Boy was a uranium gun-type device, Fat Man was a more complicated and powerful plutonium implosion weapon that exploded with a force equal to 20 kilotons of TNT.
	www.atomicmuseum.com /tour/dd2.cfm (181 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: Fat Man and Little Boy \| Deseret Morning News Web edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		That wouldn't matter, of course, if "Fat Man and Little Boy" were a knockout movie, and the audience has every right to expect that, given the star power (Paul Newman), co-writer/director (Roland Joffe, "The Killing Fields"), cinematographer (Vilmos Zsigmond, "Close Encounters"), etc., attached to the project.
		But "Fat Man and Little Boy" falls short somewhere, a distanced examination of the two years scientists spent holed up in Los Alamos, N.M., creating the world's first atomic bombs.
		Newman is Gen. Leslie Groves, the man chosen to pick the scientist to head up the $2 billion Manhattan Project —; and he, of course, picks Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz).
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,571,00.html (610 words)

	'Fat Man and Little Boy'
		But the genius of "Fat Man and Little Boy," Roland Joffe's movie about the events leading up to the explosion of the first atomic bomb, is that it suggests an earlier, more fluid condition.
		This is far from revolutionary thinking, but it is an unusual human perspective, and it's what makes "Fat Man and Little Boy" such a singular, powerful experience.
		One is a brilliant scientific theorist, the other a practical-minded military man. Both men are strong-willed, and, at the start of the project, when Groves is recruiting the genius from Berkeley to head his team, each believes he will be able to impose his will upon the other.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/fatmanandlittleboypg13hinson_a0a901.htm (1013 words)

	SparkNotes: J. Robert Oppenheimer: Fat Man and Little Boy
		Little Boy, the U-235 bomb, had the simpler design of the two, and the physicists were certain that it would work.
		Fat Man, the plutonium bomb, used a different method: the implosion method.
		In the Fat Man bomb, a subcritical sphere of plutonium is surrounded by explosives, and when the explosives fire, a shock wave compresses the plutonium into a critical mass, setting off a nuclear reaction.
	www.sparknotes.com /biography/oppenheimer/section7.rhtml (990 words)

	The Hiroshima and Nagasaki Bombings Remembered
		Fat Man and Little Boy, both weapons of unparalleled destructive power, were actually quite different.
		Little Boy, fueled by highly enriched uranium-235, was triggered by a simple "gun" mechanism; a small, slug-shaped piece of uranium was fired down a barrel into a larger, cup-shaped piece.
		A much more complex implosion-type device triggered Fat Man. It consisted of a plutonium core surrounded by high explosives wired to explode simultaneously.
	www.factmonster.com /spot/hiroshima1.html (779 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Fat Man and Little Boy
		From the very get-go Fat Man and Little Boy is marred by a horrific miscalculation of tone, unfortunately comic in its overproduced recreation of the 1940s.
		For the most part, the performances in Fat Man and Little Boy are as flat as Robinson's simple characterizations.
		Fat Man and Little Boy is released by Paramount in a no-frills, occasionally grainy anamorphic transfer (2.35:1) with both Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dolby 2.0 Surround audio tracks.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/f/fatmanandlittleboy.q.shtml (507 words)

	Tinian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The island was transformed into the busiest airfield of the war, with six 8,000 foot (2400 m) runways.
		It was from Tinian that the bombers carrying the atomic bombs Little Boy and Fat Man were launched against Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
		There is a memorial on the old airfield at the bombbay loading pits, which had been filled in for safety reasons but were both recently excavated in conjunction with the 60th Anniversary Commemoration of the Battles of Saipan and Tinian.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tinian (308 words)

	fatMan
		In 1988-89 David Brainard, Allen Poirson, and I were invited to be in a movie produced and directed by Roland Joffe called FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY.
		Don Pugsley is a tall, strong, bald man with an adequate number of tatoos.
		He is a very charming young man, and upon our arrival he bounced over to us and wanted to talk about physics.
	white.stanford.edu /~brian/fatMan.html (3155 words)

	Seattle Times Trinity Web: Part I
		The scientists who built Fat Man, as the bulbous object was known, referred to it as "the gadget." Or, "the thing."
		It was headed for the bomber base on Tinian Island in the South Pacific, where it would be loaded on a Boeing B-29 and dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6.
		A white-painted casing of Fat Man, the bomb itself, sat on a trailer near the obelisk.
	www.seattletimes.com /trinity/articles/part1.html (3784 words)

	Atomic Bomb Trinity Hiroshima Nagasaki Manhattan Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki was code named Fat Man and used plutonium as the fissionable material.
		This 10,000 lb weapon was known as "Fat Man" and promised by its design to be even more destructive than "Little Boy." Fat Man detonated 1,650 ft (500 m) over Nagasaki with the force of 21 thousand tons of TNT at 11:06 am.
		Plutonium, the fissionable fuel used in the Fat Man bomb was produced at the Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.
	www.ww2guide.com /atombomb.shtml (3533 words)

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