Nuclear weapon of the "Fat Man" type, the kind detonated over Nagasaki, Japan, in World War II.

"Fat Man" nuclear weapon.

Truman Library Description: "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 explosive."
Image courtesy of the Truman Presidential Museum and Library. Image # 61-56.

Japanese citizens camping in the ruins of Nagasaki after the atomic bomb was dropped there.
Image courtesy of the Truman Presidential Museum and Library. Image # 98-2462.

Nagasaki destroyed.

Father and daughter listening to the radio in their home, 1940. Image courtesy American Memory FSA-OWI Collection. Click to go to "Voices of World War II" home page.
Voices of World War II: Experiences From the Front and at Home
A project in partnership with the Truman Presidential Museum and Library.
Audio from the collections of the Marr Sound Archives - Department of Special Collections.
Miller Nichols Library - University of Missouri - Kansas City.
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