What was the name of the atomic bombs?

Answer 1

Nobody. They were called Fatman (the Plutonium implosion MK-III bomb) and Little Boy (the Uranium gun MK-I bomb) because of their shapes.

There is some mythology that the codenames Little Boy was named after FDR and Fatman was named after Winston Churchill to mislead spies into thinking that the "Silverplate" modified B-29s were being modified to transport those leaders, not a new type of bomb. But this is contradicted by the codename Thin Man (the Plutonium gun MK-II bomb) whose design was canceled before beginning work on the Fatman design. Thin Man would have fit FDR much better than Little Boy did and Little Boy could not have been named for Winston Churchill.

Answer 2

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb named 'Little Boy' on Hiroshima. A second atomic bomb named 'Fat Man' was dropped on Nagasaki three days later on August 9, 1945.

Answer 3

The "Fat Man" bomb, was dropped first on Nagasaki, Japan. The "Little Boy" was dropped after that on Hiroshima, Japan.

Answer 4

See atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Answer 5

The person who coined the name 'atomic bomb' was H. G. Wells in his 1914 novel The World Set Free.

Answer 6

The nuclear bombs dropped on Japan were Little Boy and Fatman.

Answer 7

They were called "Little Boy" (Hiroshima) and "Fat Man" (Nagasaki)

Answer 8

they weren't named after anyplace they were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan

Answer 9

Japan does not, and never has had atomic weapons.