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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

The next day Philip Morrison, one of Oppenheimer’s former students, removed the plutonium bomb core from a vault in the Los Alamos Tech Area.

From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin




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