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Hace 2 días · Boeing B-50 Superfortress. Boeing assembly line at Wichita, Kansas (1944) The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is an American four-engined propeller-driven heavy bomber, designed by Boeing and flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War. Named in allusion to its predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress, the Superfortress ...
Hace 2 días · The bomb, except for the uranium payload, was ready at the beginning of May 1945. The uranium-235 projectile was completed on 15 June, and the target on 24 July. [186] The target and bomb pre-assemblies (partly assembled bombs without the fissile components) left Hunters Point Naval Shipyard , California, on 16 July aboard the cruiser USS Indianapolis , arriving 26 July. [187]
Hace 2 días · Consolidated B-32 Dominator. The Consolidated B-24 Liberator is an American heavy bomber, designed by Consolidated Aircraft of San Diego, California. It was known within the company as the Model 32, and some initial production aircraft were laid down as export models designated as various LB-30s, in the Land Bomber design category.
Hace 2 días · A ring of weapons-grade 99.96% pure electrorefined plutonium, enough for one bomb core. The ring weighs 5.3 kg, is ca. 11 cm in diameter and its shape helps with criticality safety . Plutonium is a radioactive actinide metal whose isotope , plutonium-239 , is one of the three primary fissile isotopes ( uranium-233 and uranium-235 are the other two); plutonium-241 is also highly fissile.
Hace 1 día · Developed into. Boeing F-15EX Eagle II. The McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) F-15E Strike Eagle is an American all-weather multirole strike fighter [5] derived from the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. The F-15E was designed in the 1980s for long-range, high-speed interdiction without relying on escort or electronic-warfare aircraft.
Hace 2 días · Commenting on the use of the atomic bomb, then-U.S. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson stated, "The atomic bomb was more than a weapon of terrible destruction; it was a psychological weapon." [59] In 1959, Mitsuo Fuchida , the pilot who led the first wave in the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor , met with General Paul Tibbets , who piloted the Enola Gay that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima ...
Hace 1 día · Richard Phillips Feynman ( / ˈfaɪnmən /; May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American theoretical physicist, known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as his work in particle physics for which ...
