[ARC5] US Submarine ELINT WWII, (was British ZB......?)

[Gene Smar]

The dummy balms were called “pumpkins” by the 509th.  They were shaped more circular than tubular hence the name, and were for used for Fat Man’s practice runs.  

 

 

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Gene Smar  AD3F

 

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Hi Gordon:

In the book The Grand Experiment at Inhokern it's mentioned that the Naval Ordnance Test Station at China Lake did tests of the shape of atomic bombs.  They also had a facility named Salt Wells Pilot Plant where the cast explosives (probably for Fat Man).



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I have never heard anything about  test-drops with inert versions of either bomb, though there must have been many. I was at Albuquerque in I think 1958 or 59 when the press was first shown mockup versions of them, but no one said anything about those tests. - Gordon White

 





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