The "Fat Man" atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, remains one of the most significant and terrifying examples of the destructive power of nuclear weapons. In this video, we ...

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, following up three days later with another bomb on Nagasaki. The bombs, known as "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," were ...

The atomic bombs dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II—codenamed “Little Boy” and “Fat Man,” respectively—caused widespread destruction ...

Weighing 14 pounds and responsible for 80,000 deaths, the "Fat Man" atomic bomb was detonated on August 9, 1945, over the Japanese city of Nagasaki. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

Photo source: Los Alamos National Laboratory This image from 1945 shows Manhattan Project ...

Little Boy and Fat Man strike ‘searing, crushing atomic blast’ to Japan, August 1945 Published: Aug. 06, 2019, 7:00 a.m. Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, after second bomb to hit was ...

Johnston is credited with helping to develop a new type of detonator that played a key role in the creation of a second atomic bomb, "Fat Man," which plunged from a B-29 bomber and exploded over ...