BonusFact: The bomb that hit Nagasaki was called “Fat Man”, many claim named after Winston Churchill. This claim has been debunked by none other than the namer of the bomb, physicist Robert Serber, who stated he named “Fat Man” such simply because of its shape. Serber also named “L...
BonusFacts: Paul Tibbets claims in his memoirs that the code name “Fat Man” referred to Winston Churchill, but Robert Serber who worked on the design project and actually named the bombs, claims in his memoirs that it was named after Kasper Gutman, “The Fat Man”, in the filmThe Malte...
Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook the Korean War — his exemption paperwork Over lunch, his host Robert Serber asked University, New York. His most recent book had not been filed properly — prompted Gell-Mann if the particles of the Eightfold is The Workshop and the World: What Ten ...