Project Alberta
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Project Alberta, also known as Project A, was a section of the Manhattan Project which assisted in delivering the first nuclear weapons in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World Wa
Group photograph of Project Alberta on Tinian
The "Tinian Joint Chiefs": Captain William S. Parsons USN (left), Rear Admiral William R. Purnell USN (center), and Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell USA (right)
One of three identical buildings used to assemble the atomic bombs.
Project Alberta's Harold Agnew (top left), Luis Alvarez (top right), Lawrence Johnston (bottom left) and Bernard Waldman (bottom right) in front of the instrumentation laboratory on Tinian with a Bangometer canister. These were dropped by parachute to measure the force of the blast.
Pumpkin bomb
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Pumpkin bombs were large conventional aerial bombs developed by the Manhattan Project and used by the United States Army Air Forces against Japan during World War II. Their physical characteristics cl
Project Alberta
…Paul Tibbets, had his ground echelon depart Wendover on 25 April, followed by his air echelon in May. The 1st Ordnance Squadron carefully packed the Pumpkin bombs and Fat Man assemblies that they had received from Project Camel, the assemblies being sets of bomb components without the fissile pit or modulated…
A pumpkin bomb