| Caption | Physicist Norris Bradbury (left) with atomic bomb 'Gadget', 15 Jul 1945 ww2dbase | ||||
| Photographer | Unknown | ||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Department of Energy | ||||
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| Photo Size | 504 x 347 pixels | ||||
| Photos on Same Day | 15 Jul 1945 | ||||
| Photos at Same Place | Alamogordo, New Mexico, United States | ||||
| Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||
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2. don says:
17 Sep 2011 07:48:21 AM
Funnily enough, by this time the Russians, using Klaus Fuchs, David Greenglass and Harry Gold among others, had already stolen most of the information they needed to jump-start their own atom bomb program...it seems we only keep information from Americans with our needless classification of everything and anything.
17 Sep 2011 07:48:21 AM
Funnily enough, by this time the Russians, using Klaus Fuchs, David Greenglass and Harry Gold among others, had already stolen most of the information they needed to jump-start their own atom bomb program...it seems we only keep information from Americans with our needless classification of everything and anything.
3. don says:
17 Sep 2011 07:49:38 AM
I don't think it was an official name, rather it was one that Los Alamos scientists coined for it.
17 Sep 2011 07:49:38 AM
I don't think it was an official name, rather it was one that Los Alamos scientists coined for it.
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David Stubblebine says:
8 Nov 2015 07:43:30 PM
Don is right. The official name for this device was "Trinity" but the Los Alamos scientists came to call it the "gadget."
David Stubblebine says:8 Nov 2015 07:43:30 PM
Don is right. The official name for this device was "Trinity" but the Los Alamos scientists came to call it the "gadget."
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18 Jul 2010 01:47:43 PM
funny name for a bomb. They were so paranoid back then naming it a bomb would probably attract enemy spies.