In the test bomb, the material was plutonium. Plutonium was also used in one of the bombs dropped on Japan, Fat Man. Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, was made of uranium.
The code name for the development of the atomic bomb known as "Fat Man" was part of the Manhattan Project. Specifically, Fat Man was developed at the Los Alamos Laboratory under the direction of J. Robert Oppenheimer. The bomb used a plutonium core and was the second atomic bomb dropped on Japan, following "Little Boy," which was a uranium-based bomb. Fat Man was detonated over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
Plutonium was and still is used for atomic bombs. The atomic bombs you are talking about would be fat man and little boy. They were the two used to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki Many people were killed when the b-29 bomber dropped fat man.
The only nuclear weapons ever used in war were the US's MK-1 Uranium gun bomb and MK-3 Plutonium implosion bomb.
Uranium enrichment plantsPrototype plutonium production reactor & design of plutonium production reactors used in Hanford, WA
they used uranium and plutonium.
Both Uranium & Plutonium were used.
The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II used uranium-235 and plutonium-239 as their primary elements. The bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Little Boy) used uranium-235, while the bomb dropped on Nagasaki (Fat Man) used plutonium-239.
Plutonium was used in the Trinity test, Uranium in the first combat weapon.
The Little Boy atomic bomb used about 64 kilograms (141 pounds) of highly-enriched uranium-235, not plutonium. Plutonium was used in the Fat Man bomb, which used about 6.2 kilograms (13.6 pounds) of plutonium.
There are two materials that can be used to make an atomic bomb: Plutonium-239 and uranium-235. Of the two plutonium-239 is easier to acquire. By the end of the Manhattan Project the U.S. only had enough uranium-235 to make one bomb, and that was Little Boy.
Either highly enriched uranium-235 or reactor produced plutonium.
The first bomb exploded, the Trinity test bomb, used plutonium. The first bomb deployed, dropped on Hiroshima, used uranium 235. The second bomb deployed, dropped on Nagasaki, used plutonium 239.
In Hiroshima a uranium fission bomb was used and in Nagasaki a plutonium Implosion type bomb was used.
either uranium or plutonium may be used in fission bombs, hydrogen and/or lithium may be used in fusion bombs.
Both uranium and plutonium were used extensively to make the first two atomic bombs, dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively.
The first atomic bomb used against mankind was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. It's code name was little boy and it used Uranium as fuel. The second bomb was dropped over Nagasaki, Japan on august 9, 1495. It,s code name was fat man and it used Plutonium as fuel.