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Photographer: Don Morfe
Taken: September 9, 2008
Caption: Fat Man Bomb Casing
Additional Description: The casing on this display was assembled after WWII, and it is considered the prototype for the original MK III. The original atomic bomb was tested at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945 without a casing. The 5,000 pound bomb was placed atop a 100-foot tower to simulate an aerial blast and reduce the amount of radioactive dust spewed into the air. It was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945.
Submitted: January 30, 2014, by Don Morfe of Baltimore, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p265517
File Size: 2.996 Megabytes

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