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
Thin Man Press Thin Man Press Thin Man Press is a London-based boutique publisher. In July 2014, Thin Man Press published Libertines' front man Peter Doherty's second book "From Albion to Shangri-La". It is a compilation of extracts from Doherty's journals and tour diaries, edited by Nina Antonia. The Kindle edition featured a photograph from the original journals - Doherty leaves his journals open for visitors to contribute - depicting a pledge in syringe blood, signed by Peaches Geldof, promising "not to die". In 2012, Thin Man Press published an English translation of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard's memoir: "Guarding Bin Laden, My Life