Episode 537: The Manhattan Project Part V - Frankenstein's Monster
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The Fat Man Bombing of Nagasaki
Fat man was a more powerful bomb, little boy killed twice the number of people and the destruction radius have been three times as large. The hill surrounding Nagasaki absorbed the brunt of the bomb's blast, resulting in 40,000 instant deaths instead of 80,000. Nine residents of Nagasaki who had survived the bombing of Hiroshima had actually made their way back to Nagasaki before the second bomb went off.
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