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- proper noun The
code name given to thenuclear bomb dropped overNagasaki ,Japan on August 9, 1945.
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Examples
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The bomb, called Fat Man, was aimed for the Mitsubishi Torpedo Plant.
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I want to tell them that I'm the Fat Man, that the guy in the back row is the Fat Man, that we're all the Fat Man . . . and that we can all be saved.
Bright Lights, Flop City Edward Kosner 2011
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A second Fat Man, twice as powerful as Little Boy, similarly decimated Nagasaki on Aug. 9.
The Atomic Bomb 2008
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A third Fat Man was waiting in the wings; Oppenheimer thought he could produce six a month beginning in October.
The Atomic Bomb 2008
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The two different bombs they devised over the next 28 months, Little Boy and Fat Man, fissioned baseball-size cores of uranium or plutonium to deliver explosions equivalent to thousands of tons of TNT.
The Atomic Bomb 2008
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Sixty-threeyears ago in 1945, Harry S. Truman insanely dropped two nuclear bombs, named Little Boy and Fat Man, on "civilian" targets, destroying Japan and thus ending WWII.
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"He can always ask a policeman," said the Fat Man, pulling out the Palliser Estates folder, which Pascoe was not surprised to see contained details of Hollybush, including a map of the grounds, copies of which Dalziel passed on to Sergeant Wield to aid him in the disposition of his troops when they rendezvoused in the woods flanking the approach to the house.
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"He can always ask a policeman," said the Fat Man, pulling out the Palliser Estates folder, which Pascoe was not surprised to see contained details of Hollybush, including a map of the grounds, copies of which Dalziel passed on to Sergeant Wield to aid him in the disposition of his troops when they rendezvoused in the woods flanking the approach to the house.
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He returned to the Sea Dart, doffed his Fat Man, and took his station in the window of the bow.
Tom Swift Jr And His Jetmarine Almquist, John 1954
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"All right, go ahead and get your family," said Fat Man.
Myths and Legends of the Sioux Marie L. McLaughlin
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