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 Knew The Man Who Knew The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan is a biography of the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, written by Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Sebastian Mallaby. It was published in October 2016 by Penguin Press. In the book, Mallaby addresses questions about Greenspan that emerged in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. "Mr. Greenspan is a fascinating subject because for so long he was considered a genius, only to later be blamed for the financial crisis," wrote Andrew Ross Sorkin, reviewing the book in the "New York Times". "Mr.