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Description:'Fat Man' type of weapon, the type detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II. The bomb is 60 inches in diameter and 128 inches long. The second nuclear weapon to be detonated, it weighed about 10,000 pounds and had a yield equivalent to approximately 20,000 tons of high explosives (Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) (77-AEC-60- 6282, National Archives).
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