The American Documentary: Birth of the Bomb (3 of 4)

[@pop5678eye]

Fat man specifically is the bomb for the Nagasaki drop, not the one at the Trinity test. The one at the Trinity test was just nicknamed 'gadget.'

[@gabagoolenjoyer]

I'm about half way through the history channel doc and they also referred to the test bomb as fat man. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6qUm3qQo991bbc 26:20

[@williamhphillips5608]

That’s the only mistake I spotted in this documentary. Could it be that they got sloppy and forgot to include the Gadget, and also had meant to make mention of the August 9 run on Nagasaki?

[@gpcrawford8353]

Good to see James Tuck ,he was an English explosive expert who had developed shaped charges as an antitank weapon, together with George Kristowski worked out a system of slow and fast explosive lenses to crush the plutonium core precisely .

[@mindauggas]

Feynman is the joker as usual ... awesome ... 3:17

[@prwexler]

Somebody's copying from somebody, here. The first four minutes of this seem to have been ripped from the pages of Dark Sun by Richard Rhodes!

[@kmhorrorbiz8706]

9:54...the man who invented the faux-hawk.

[@kmhorrorbiz8706]

9:47...Gene Hackman look-alike.