A collection of photographs of the Little Boy and Fat Man atomic bombs features some images of the actual bombs that were detonated over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, as well as photographs of replicas displayed in museums. Little Boy was a type of atomic bomb created by the Manhattan Project during World War II. The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb (L-11) used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay on 6 August 1945, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and the second nuclear.
Technical description, photographs, and video of atomic bombs Little Boy and Fat Man dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Nuclear weapon of the "Little Boy" type, the kind detonated over Hiroshima, Japan, in World War II. The bomb is 28 inches in diameter and 120 inches long.
The first nuclear weapon ever detonated, it weighed about 9,000 pounds and had a yield equivalent to approximately 20,000 tons of high explosive. File:Little boy.jpg (file redirect) Little Boy Nuclear weapons of the United States Little Boy Nuclear weapons of the United States Category:Little Boy. "Little Boy" is the nick name given to the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.
Little Boy was dropped from the Enola Gay, one of the B-29 bombers that flew over Hiroshima on that day. The design of Little Boy was completely different from Gadget/Fat Man. It was completed in February with only the field preparations necessary.
Little Boy - Hiroshima - August 6, 1945 The atomic bomb used at Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, was. On August 6, 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, following up three days later with another bomb on Nagasaki. The bombs, known as "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," were.
Other photographs depict Little Boy's devastating effects on Hiroshima. In one sense, Little Boy was a failure. After the crew of the Enola Gay dropped the bomb, only a small amount of its uranium fissioned, but the resulting explosion leveled 5.4 square miles of the city and killed over 100,000 soldiers and civilians.
Little Boy was a gun-barrel-type bomb that used uranium as its fissile material. It was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, becoming the first.