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 in Al-Qaeda" by Nasser al-Bahri, originally published in France, co-written by Le Figaro journalist, Georges Malbrunot. Thin Man Press has also published, among other titles: "Spark In The Dark", the first collection of poetry by Southwark Mysteries playwright, John Constable (aka John Crow); "The Rise and Fall of The Clash" an account of tracking down the various members of The Clash and then making the eponymous film, by director, Danny Garcia; "A Wave of Dreams", the surrealist classic by Louis Aragon in translation for the first time by Susan de Muth and "Licentia" by A.A. Walker. Thin Man Press Thin