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Originally Posted by Carruthers

What astonished me was how small the housing was which contained the warhead. A few feet tall and fewer feet wide. I couldn't believe it.

Same applied to a B-29 heavy bomber. Surprising how that giant plane contained such a tiny bomb bay.

Delivery is so much part of the problem. Weaponizing, by making a warhead or bomb so small, is also an engineering feat. Making a nuclear explosive is only part of the problem. Making it small enough and attaching it to a massive delivery device is major.

In WWII, the atomic bomb was the largest engineering problem. Second (a B-17 and it sibling B-29) was the second largest engineering project of that war.

Explains why delivery systems, that need not support a human, are so more advanced and effective.