Fatman inner1

• Fatman_inner1.png: Dake / *derivative work: Malyszkz (talk)

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Budowa bomby Fatman

  1. AN 219 destruct fuse
  2. Archie radar antenna
  3. Plate with batteries (to detonate charge surrounding nuclear components)
  4. X-Unit, a firing set placed near the charge
  5. Hinge fixing the two ellipsoidal parts of the bomb
  6. High explosive pentagonal lens (12 units around the core, made of high and low velocity explosive)
  7. High explosive hexagonal lens (20 units around the core, made of high and low velocity explosive)
  8. California Parachute tail (aluminium)
  9. Dural casing, ~140 cm inner diameter
 10. Cones that contained the whole sphere
 11. Explosive lenses (low and high velocity)
 12. Nuclear material (see other figure for details about the different layers)
 13. Plate with instruments (radars, baroswitches and timers)