Robert Del Tredici - At Work in the Fields of the Bomb

02. The Amount of plutonium in the Nagasaki Bomb

This glass ball, 3.2 inches across, is the size of the plutonium core in the bomb that exploded over Nagasaki with a force equivalent to 22,000 tons of TNT. Kansas City, Missouri, September 22, 1983.

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