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>>434281 Pumpkin Bombs? As in those jack-o-lantern grenades thrown by the Green Goblin against Spiderman? No, just big round bombs: "Pumpkin bombs" were conventional high explosive aerial bombs developed by the Manhattan Project and used by the United States Army Air Forces against Japan during World War II. The name "pumpkin bomb" resulted from the large ellipsoidal shape of the munition and was the actual reference term used in official documents. 486 of the bombs were built and 49 dropped on Japanese targets by the 509th Composite Group.
The concept for the pumpkin bomb originated with Navy Captain William S. Parsons of the Ordnance Division at Los Alamos and USAAF Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, commander of the 509th CG, on December 13, 1944, as a means of providing continued realistic training for the B-29 crews assigned to drop the atomic bomb after their deployment to the Western Pacific. The bomb would be a close but non-nuclear replication of the Fat Man plutonium bomb with the same ballistic and handling characteristics. Mission parameters would be similar to those of the actual atomic bomb missions and all targets located in the vicinity of the cities designated for atomic attack. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_bomb
Pic: US 'Fat Man' implosion type plutonium atomic bomb dropped over Nagasaki, on Aug. 9, 1945.
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