GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -This gun-type uranium bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, weighed 9, 700 pounds. The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, August 6, 1945, at 8:15 AM. A B-29 dropped the bomb from 31, 000 feet. The bomb exploded about 1, 500 feet above the city with a force of 15, 000 tons of TNT.

Detailed explanation-2: -After the Thin Man bomb, whose moniker was inspired by the U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, didn’t come to fruition, the gun-type uranium atomic bomb named Little Boy was developed. It was likely dubbed as such because it was smaller in size.

Detailed explanation-3: -On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay left the island of Tinian for Hiroshima, Japan carrying the uranium 235 gun-type bomb, named Little Boy.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Manhattan Project produced two different types of atomic bombs, code-named Fat Man and Little Boy. Fat Man, which was dropped on Nagasaki, was the more complex of the two.

Detailed explanation-5: -The explosion immediately killed an estimated 80, 000 people; tens of thousands more would later die of radiation exposure. Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40, 000 people.