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The trinity test was a proof of concept. It was not anything close to a production ready bomb.


From Wikipedia:

> The Trinity Gadget was officially a Y-1561 device, as was the Fat Man used a few weeks later in the bombing of Nagasaki. The two were very similar, with only minor differences, the most obvious being the absence of fuzing and the external ballistic casing. The bombs were still under development, and small changes continued to be made to the Fat Man design.

So, not identical. But "not anything close" seems wrong.




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