The Manhattan Project A-Bomb?

[Contec]

"I'm sorry, but I just remembered a more "simpler time" when my older brother and his friends would get their kicks by going to the airport to see "how long it would be until they got stopped for looking 'conspicuous.'"
Oh, how times have changed!"

What, you mean like 35 years ago when it was still okay to run around in public with toy guns, yelling "Bang, you're dead!", or even using a tree branch or your finger to simulate a gun? :eek

A Guy even got stopped from boarding a plane because he had a Transformers t-shirt and the transformer had a Gun :confused Its a weird world...

 

[Jodo]

Aye, that is is. At my last rummage sale, I had a little toy tank with a handle on the back of it that made it fire. Evryone who came in wouldn't buy it for their kids because it "had a trigger" (Guess because it was a tank wasn't a big deal). :wacko One lady who was a teacher wouldn't buy it for her son, because she thought it would give him the idea that it would be ok to hold up his finger like a gun at school. I wanted to bring all my airsofts,etc. out and show her. :lol

 

[phase pistol]

Well the Manhattan Project bombs were ver primitive by today's standards... I doubt that today's nuclear weapons look anything like them. :lol

This fascinating book, long out of print, has a detailed history of nuclear weapons and depictions of many of them.

US Nuclear Weapons: the Secret History by Chuck Hansen

And of course don't forget the classic book on the Manhattan Project, The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

 

[DudeManGuy]

Just so you guys know, it's generally considered a bad idea to google "How to build an atomic bomb".

 

[cboath]

Probably just as bad to write in a public message board, too

Just don't punch in how to find the requisite nuclear material or you're sure to wind up on a government site

 

[micdavis]

Back to the movie bomb.

I did about 40 frame captures.

Here's the best one.

 

[mgoob]

I thought you were interested in a realistic prop from Fat Man & Little Boy starring Paul Newman & Dwight Schultz (1989)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097336/

In the film, John Cusack touches the core which sparks, and he quickly pushes all of the parts onto the floor (based on real person). You can see the "soccer ball shaped parts" that went around the core in this film.

There's a couple of photos in a book or TV show I have that shows the actual "soccer ball" bomb they were working on: Trinity. Photos are very close to the prop made for the film.

I'd just like to have this half- finished core of the bomb as a prop: like a cutaway model of what was.

If you visit the UH NASM outside of National Airport in DC, you can see the Enola Gay. On display are 2 wooden red & green plugs they found whilst restoring the B-29. These plugs were would have been inserted into the bomb for "safe" and "armed" but they couldn't conclude if these were spares or actually used.

Oh, and Wargames was a fun film, but the computers they used were a tad slow to "Play a Game."