Little Boy and Fat Man
Little Boy and Fat Man (L to R) were the world's first atomic weapons. Little Boy was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It exploded approximately 1,800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan, on the morning of August 6, 1945, with a force equal to 13,000 tons of TNT. Immediate deaths were between 70,000 to 130,000.
Little Boy was dropped from a B-29 bomber piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets. Tibbets had named the plane Enola Gay after his mother the night before the atomic attack.
Fat Man was the second nuclear weapon used in warfare. Dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, Fat Man devastated more than two square miles of the city and caused approximately 45,000 immediate deaths.
Major Charles W. Sweeney piloted the B-29, #77 that dropped Fat Man. After the nuclear mission, #77 was christened Bockscar after its regular Command Pilot, Fred Bock.
While Little Boy was a uranium gun-type device, Fat Man was a more complicated and powerful plutonium implosion weapon that exploded with a force equal to 20 kilotons of TNT.
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2007-01-14 21:53:55
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answered by delicateharmony 5
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2016-09-07 21:07:57
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answered by ? 4
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Fat Man and Little Boy were the two types of atom bombs first developed. They used different triggering mechanisms, so Fat Man was quite large, while Little Boy more resembled conventional bombs.
2007-01-14 21:55:59
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answered by Helmut 7
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The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan, "Little boy" and "Fat man" an extra 10 pts should be given to "Gargoyl" for knowing that it was "BOCK"S CAR" (the B-29 that laid the golden egg) and NOT "Enola Gay" (the other B-29). and yet even more unknown A-bomb trivia: "Truman" was later asked how much he agonized over making the descision to use the Atomic bomb, his response ? "Easiest descision, I ever made in my life" !
2007-01-14 22:46:50
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answered by Anonymous
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The bomb dropped on Nagasaki, August 1945
2007-01-14 23:26:14
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answered by rosie recipe 7
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fat man and little boy first atomic bombs dropped at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.. in world war 2 ..the enola gay dropped both ..
2007-01-14 21:50:51
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answered by Anonymous
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