Thin Man (nuclear bomb) and the name came from the Dashiell Hammett detective novel "The Thin Man" and series of movies by the same name. The "Fat Man" bomb would be round and fat and was named after Sydney Greenstreet's character in "The Maltese Falcon". "Little Boy" would come last and be named only to contrast to the "Thin Man" bomb. Oppenheimer assembled a team at the Los Alamos Laboratory to work on plutonium gun design that included senior engineer Edwin McMillan and senior physicists Charles Critchfield and Joseph Hirschfelder. Critchfield had been working with sabots, which Oppenheimer believed would be required by the
The Man Who Planted Trees for BBC Radio 4 with Bill Paterson narrating. The original book has inspired a 2012 book on the same theme: "The Man Who Planted Trees: Lost Groves, Champion Trees, and an Urgent Plan to Save the Planet" by Jim Robbins. Robbins work cites Giono's work and goes on to consider the modern-day work of David Milarch, a Michigan nurseryman. Environmentalist and silvologist Gabriel Hemery wrote a sequel in 2016 titled: "The Man Who Harvested Trees and Gifted Life". The short story follows a girl's life-long relationship with a forest and its trees. The Man Who Planted Trees The Man Who