80 years ago today, the US dropped Fat Man, the plutonium-powered implosion bomb, on Nagasaki, Japan. I'm visiting Los Alamos, where the bomb was built, and today saw this replica at the lab's Bradbury Science Museum. LANL is now building replacement plutonium pits at TA-55. Heavy thoughts.
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@stshank I was actually just there a couple days ago. It’s a great little museum, in no small part because of those heavy thoughts. I don’t go every time I’m in Los Alamos, but we often take visitors.
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Freaking small to contain so much death.
Freaking small to contain so much death.
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was it not 80 years ago? ...
Pit production is at TA-55, LANL's Plutonium Facility, which I visited in the 1990s as a journalist when the post-Cold War lab was trying to become more transparent. Now Russians are talking up hypersonic missile and arms control agreements are lapsing. https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/national-security-science/1221-pit-production-explained
