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We already "wasted" one on a demonstration, and what was the great risk of being caught short? Japan potentially faces another round of conventional bombing?
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
We already "wasted" one on a demonstration, and what was the great risk of being caught short? Japan potentially faces another round of conventional bombing?
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThe trinity test was a proof of concept. It was not anything close to a production ready bomb.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoFrom Wikipedia: > The Trinity Gadget was officially a Y-1561 device, as was the Fat Man used a few weeks later in the bombing of Nagasaki. The two were very similar, with only minor differences, the most obvious being the absence of fuzing and the external ballistic casing. The bombs were still under development, and small changes continued to be made to the Fat Man design. So, not identical. But "not anything close" seems wrong.