... its 9000 pound thin-cigar shaped body, and the Plutonium bomb, named "Fat Man" for its large 10, 800 pound egg shaped body.3 The modification of B-29 bombers that could carry the bomb, as well as the training for pilots that may have been involved on this mission, was to take place at Tinian, located in the Marianas Group of islands ... 't see how they could possibly go on any longer ... with this device." Three days later, the plutonium bomb, Fat Man, was loaded onto another B-29, Bockscar, and was ready to carry out its mission. On this mission, Captain Kermit K. Beahan would be the bo...
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