plutonium bomb
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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
Most of the work at Los Alamos was devoted to creating a design for a plutonium bomb.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2020
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
From that material, the Los Alamos bomb makers would create the device known as Fat Man, the plutonium bomb dropped over Nagasaki three days after the Hiroshima bombing.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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