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Stray Electron:
  The US only had two bombs at the time but within a month they would had more and they planned to be able to produce about 3 per month very shortly. So the Japanese were smart to surrender when they did.

msuffidy:

--- Quote from: Stray Electron on August 08, 2023, 02:46:40 am ---  The US only had two bombs at the time but within a month they would had more and they planned to be able to produce about 3 per month very shortly. So the Japanese were smart to surrender when they did.

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I was thinking maybe the Japanese may have thought they won some legitimate race so that could have worked out for the US.

vad:
The US had four bombs: one uranium gun type, three plutonium cores, and four implosion assemblies, allowing them to build three plutonium bombs. The uranium one was detonated over Hiroshima. The first plutonium bomb, Trinity, was tested in the desert. The second plutonium bomb was used over Nagasaki. The third plutonium core and the two remaining assemblies were not used but were available for a potential third bombing if needed.

TimFox:
For those who were disappointed in the movie "Oppenheimer" because it was, as advertised, about Robert Oppenheimer and not about hardware, I can recommend a very interesting book that I just received:
Martin Miller: Weapons of Mass Destruction: Specters of the Nuclear Age, Schiffer Publishing 2017.

The first 68 pages are an historical survey from WW II through 1991, concentrating on American weaponry and nuclear-weapons laboratories.
The remaining 145 pages are the author's own stunning photographs, mainly of weapon exhibits in military museums.
He started out with a proper 8x10 inch camera, but later used modern digital cameras (with manual focusing) and complex mosaic software, to assemble his high-resolution, deep-focus monochrome images.
(Trading mobility for complexity.)

Among other things, there are interior shots of the Minuteman launch control center at the Minuteman Missile National Historic Site, many shots of aircraft and missiles, the BA-53 H-bomb and other bombs, and even the HTRE-3 Experimental Nuclear Propulsion Reactor for the abandoned strategic nuclear bomber project.

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: TimFox on October 06, 2023, 09:49:14 pm ---For those who were disappointed in the movie "Oppenheimer" because it was, as advertised, about Robert Oppenheimer and not about hardware
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The "advertisment" was the trailer. And the trailer implies that there is a LOT about the hardware and the project.
Add in the fact that Oppenheimer would be essentially a nobody, and a movie never made about him if it wasn't for the project. Hence why the had to sell the trailer as being about the project.

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