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Why is it in WW2, the Manhattan Project had focused on creating a gun-type and an implosion type weapon. Almost everyone was confident of the gun-type weapon, that no test was carried out for it and went dropped as planned. However, the Fat Man implosion type had a previous Trinity implosion type test to see whether it could work or not.

What if the Manhattan Project had focused on creating a gun-type only weapon? Do we get nukes faster than the OTL since we focus on producing one type instead of two types? I understand to make the material necessary for it is difficult, but this shouldn't be a problem considering that the US industrial output could make it.
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