It used 2 pieces of 93.5% enriched Uranium-235: the target and the bullet at opposite ends of a cannon barrel. Cordite propelled the bullet down the barrel to the target. Once at the target, creating a supercritical mass, the bullet crushed the neutron source which generated a pulse of neutrons (about 10 in the time to set off the bomb).
For more details see The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.
It used a fission trigger. It goes something like this; The explosives fire and propel the bullet down the barrel, the bullet strikes the sphere and generator, initiating the fission reaction, the fission reaction begins and the bomb explodes.
Little Boy was employed at Hiroshima and Fat Man at Nagasaki.
The Little Boy Bomb was an Atomic bomb Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in World War 2
= Little Boy. =
the bomb was nicknamed "Little Boy", and it used the element of uranium-235.
Simple answer... "Little Boy"
Little Boy was employed at Hiroshima and Fat Man at Nagasaki.
The Little Boy Bomb was an Atomic bomb Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in World War 2
The Little Boy Bomb was an Atomic bomb Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in World War 2
Fat boy was the big bomb and little boy was the smaller bomb.
= Little Boy. =
The Little Boy bomb had not plutonium.
the bomb was nicknamed "Little Boy", and it used the element of uranium-235.
That bomb was nicknamed Little Boy
That bomb was codenamed Little Boy.
Little boy is the code name for the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Simple answer... "Little Boy"
Little Boy.