Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb

by Al Christman

When it became necessary to order nose cones, Johns Hopkins University, having a medical reputation, placed orders for millions of “rectal expanders.”24

Gotta try this one

James Van Allen (whose later research on cosmic radiation led to the discovery of the Van Allen belts)

Van allen!

The target would be feet, not miles, away. The gun would be fired not from the deck of a ship but from inside the housing of the bomb as it plummeted to a prescribed altitude above the enemy.

AlreDy the design!

that a plane was being modified to carry Roosevelt (Thin Man) and Churchill (Fat Man).25

Thin man/fat man

the flu epidemic.

Flu 1943 december?