Albuquerque Journal, May 10th, 2002
Reopening museum wants to tell nation's atomic story When the National Atomic Museum opens Saturday at its new home in Old Town, Fat Man will be there, but Little Boy won't.As a replica of the first of two atomic bombs the United States dropped on Japan to end World War II, Little Boy had always been considered too primitive to pose any kind of security threat while on display at the museum, said director Jim Walther. The replica weighed five tons and was welded shut. Then came the attacks of Sept. 11, which raised fears that terrorists with scarce resources might look to build crude devices...
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