Episode 536: The Manhattan Project Part IV - I Am Become Death
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The History of the Pumpkin Bomb
In December of 1944, Tibbetts began flying missions over Japan and B 29s loaded with so-called pumpkin bombs that were roughly the same size and weight of an atomic bomb. Much like the fat man bomb, each pumpkin bomb was about 10 feet long, five feet in circumference, and it weighed about five tons. "I definitely would get super nervous as I'm sitting in the rolling hills of Japan, watching them drop these giant, like obviously fake bombs," he says.
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