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- See also changes related to Fat Man (atomic bomb), or pages that link to Fat Man (atomic bomb) or to this page or whose text contains "Fat Man (atomic bomb)".
Parent topics
- Nuclear weapon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Fission device [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Plutonium [r]: Mainly man-made radioactive element (Z = 94); its 239 isotope is fissionable and used in nuclear weapons; the 240 isotope is used in some nuclear power reactors [e]
- Implosion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Mark 4 (nuclear weapon) [r]: Still first-generation but a production-quality, re-engineered version of the Fat Man bomb, the yield of which could be varied from 1, 3.5, 8, 14, 21, 22, and 31 kt TNT equivalent by exchanging the plutonium pits; first weapon made on an assembly line rather than by hand; design ancestor of the British Blue Danube bomb [e]