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Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces.[2] It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. The second, the "Fat Man", was dropped three days later on Nagasaki.[3]
The weapon was developed by the Manhattan Project during World War II. It derived its explosive power from the nuclear fission of uranium 235. The Hiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity test, and the first uranium-based detonation. Approximately 600 milligrams of mass were converted into energy. It exploded with energy between 13 and 18 kilotons of TNT (54 and 75 TJ) (estimates vary) and killed approximately 140,000 people.[4] Its design was not tested in advance, unlike the more complex plutonium bomb (Fat Man). The available supply of enriched uranium was very small at that time, and it was felt that the simple design of a uranium "gun" type bomb was so sure to work that there was no need to test it at full scale. Small-scale experiments were used to determine the critical mass and other properties.
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Name of the atomic bomb that hit Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
Little Boy was employed at Hiroshima and Fat Man at Nagasaki.
What was the little boy?
The Little Boy Bomb was an Atomic bomb Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in World War 2
What is the name of the first atom bomb?
= Little Boy. =
What new type of bomb us dropped on japan?
little boy and fat man they dropped the newly created atomic bomb on japan
What is nickname for the bomb in hiroshima?
the bomb was nicknamed "Little Boy", and it used the element of uranium-235.
What type of chemical did Little boy have more of plutonium or uranium?
Little boy was a bomb with highly enriched uranium.
Is the bomb little boy a fission or fusion reaction?
The "Little Boy" bomb used in the Hiroshima bombing was a fission bomb, specifically a gun-type uranium-235 bomb. It relied on the nuclear fission of uranium-235 to release a massive amount of energy.
Was it harder to make the Little Boy atomic bomb than the Fat Man atomic bomb?
Little boy was a uranium fission bomb and Fat man was a plutonium implosion type bomb. Both required the needed research. There is no record into was harder to produce.
What element was used as fuel for the little boy bomb?
The Little Boy bomb, dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, used enriched uranium-235 as its fuel. This type of bomb is known as a uranium-based atomic bomb, and it functions through the process of nuclear fission.
Name of the atomic bomb that hit Nagasaki and Hiroshima?
Little Boy was employed at Hiroshima and Fat Man at Nagasaki.
What type of bomb fell on Hiroshima?
Which bomb?? If you mean the code name given to the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, it was called "little boy".
What was the little boy?
The Little Boy Bomb was an Atomic bomb Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in World War 2
What was little boy?
The Little Boy Bomb was an Atomic bomb Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan in World War 2
What are the two types of atomic bomb?
Fat boy was the big bomb and little boy was the smaller bomb.
What is the name of the first atom bomb?
= Little Boy. =
What new type of bomb us dropped on japan?
little boy and fat man they dropped the newly created atomic bomb on japan
How was the bomb in Hiroshima different from the one in Nagasaki?
Little boy the bomb used in Hiroshima was a uranium fission bomb. Fat man the bomb dropped over Nagasaki was a plutonium implosion type bomb.
