What are “Fat Man” and “Little Boy”?
“Little Boy” was the military codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945 from a USAF B-29, dubbed the Enola Gay. It was the first atomic bomb ever used as an offensive weapon. “Fat Man” was the name of the much larger atomic bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan by the United States, on August 9, 1945. Japan officially surrendered on August 15th, 1945. The end of WWII ushered in an era of unprecedented productivity and prosperity in the West, that eventually spread to the East and across the globe. So, let’s all have a fresh, hot atomic blast of Ground Zero Coffee to start our productive, prosperous day. JAPANESE NUKES? – In case you’re wondering, yes, it seems the experts (well, the legion of ghost writers on Wikipedia) are saying that around the same time as the cosmoplitan-sounding U. S. Manhattan Project, the Empire of Japan was trying to develop a genshi bakudan – an atomic bomb. Most experts believe Japan didn’t get too far. The program was small, an
