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The specifications reveal the use of four canisters of cordite (synthetic propellant) in the Little Boy (gun type uranium device). Unclassified details list 4 silk bags, each two pounds, for a total of 8 pounds of conventional explosive, plus their primers.
"It took Parsons 15 minutes to load the four cordite canisters into the gun chamber of Little Boy, which when fired would assemble two halves of the U-135 to make up the critical mass needed to [sustain] a chain reaction."
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Cordite is a family of smokeless propellants developed and produced in the UK, beginning in 1889 to replace gunpowder as a military propellant. However, cordite is now obsolete since it has been replaced by more modern propellants.
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Implosion type plutonium devices, such as the Fat Mandropped on Nagasaki, used explosive "lenses" made of the explosives Composition B (TNT and RDX) and Baratol (TNT and barium nitrate).
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∙ 9y agoAtomic bombs do not have gun powder they have uranium or another highly reactive substance. The weight of the uranium was in little boy was140.
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