What is Fat Man?
[[File:Fat Man on Tinian.jpg|right|thumb|Fat Man]] {{main|Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki}} '''Fat Man''' is the name of the second [[atomic bomb]] ever made from [[plutonium]] and the second atomic bomb to be used in [[nuclear warfare]]. It is called Fat Man because of the round shape. It was dropped over the [[Japan]]ese city of [[Nagasaki]] on [[August 9]], 1945.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/9/newsid_3580000/3580143.stm|title=1945: Atom bomb hits Nagasaki|date=9 August 1945}}</ref> More than a hundred of this kind were made after [[World War II]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{history-stub}} [[Category:Nuclear weapons]] [[Category:World War II]]