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by caf 4819 days ago
As an interesting sidebar, there's a series of photos of some of the scientists on Tinian posing with a small box containing the core of the Fat Man bomb - a 3.5" diameter sphere of Plutonium that was apparently worth at the time the equivalent of about $5 billion dollars.

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/blog/2011/11/25/friday-image-posin...