Fat Man going through the car wash
Explosive lens detonation in an atomic bomb of the Fat Man type
Arming plugs for the Little Boy bomb dropped on Hiroshima - Sold for $99,343. The green one is a safety and was kept plugged into the bomb until after takeoff. The red one was to arm the bomb is a spare in the event the original one was lost . That one was destroyed when the bomb was detonated.
Thin Man, the Mark 2 Atomic Bomb, a plutonium gun-type nuclear weapon. It was not fully developed, because the design was aerodynamically unstable and would not achieve prompt supercriticality, pre-detonating instead. A "fizzle" instead of a "bang".
Source: deviantart.com
Fat Man, exploded
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Xenozoic Tales - art by Mark Schultz (1989)
The only colour picture of the Trinity test at Los Alamos of the atomic bomb, by Jack Aeby.
While color motion pictures of the Trinity test were made, most were badly overexposed or damaged due to the fireball's tendency to blister and solarize the film.
Source: Wikipedia
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RDS-1, the first Soviet atomic test, 1949
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