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On July 16, 1945, a device utilizing a similar mechanism (called the "gadget" for security reasons) detonated in a test explosion at a remote site in New Mexico, known as the "Trinity" ron vawter test. In the end, it gave somewhere around 20 kt (80 TJ), 2 to 4 times the expected ron vawter yield. The Soviet Union's first nuclear weapon detonated at Operation First Lightning (known as "Joe 1" in the West) was more or less a purposeful copy of the "Fat Man" device, on which they had obtained detailed information from the spy Klaus Fuchs. [edit] The Bombing "Fat Man" and ron vawter "Little Boy" were flown from the United States controlled island of Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands, to where they would eventually rest in Japan. Immediately after the bombings of Japan, the United States produced a technical history of the Manhattan Project, known as the Smyth Report, that did not disclose the information that the "Fat Man" device was different from the "Little Boy" device, and did not imply that a different method was required for plutonium weapons.
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