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| Thin Man | |
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&sq=Albert Einstein&lang=en&file=File:Thin_man_bomb_casings.jpg) "Thin Man" plutonium gun test casings | |
| Type | Nuclear weapon |
| Place of origin | United States |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Los Alamos Laboratory |
| Specifications | |
| Length | 17 feet (5.2 m) |
| Diameter | 38 inches (97 cm) |
| Filling | Plutonium |
"Thin Man" was the code name for a proposed plutonium-fueled gun-type nuclear bomb that the United States was developing during the Manhattan Project. Its development was abandoned in 1944 after it was discovered that the spontaneous fission rate of nuclear reactor-bred plutonium was too high for use in a gun-type design due to the high concentration of the isotope plutonium-240.