USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was a gun-assembly fission bomb using uranium, whereas Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, was an implosion fission bomb utilizing plutonium.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. The atomic bomb exploded at 8:16 a.m., in an instant 80, 000 to 140, 000 people were killed and 100, 000 more were seriously injured.

Detailed explanation-3: -The two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 killed and maimed hundreds of thousands of people, and their effects are still being felt today. By the end of 1945, the bombing had killed an estimated 140, 000 people in Hiroshima, and a further 74, 000 in Nagasaki.

Detailed explanation-4: -The bomb destroyed 5 square miles of the city and caused about 140, 000 deaths by the end of 1945. This implosion-type plutonium bomb, nicknamed Fat Man, weighed 10, 800 pounds. The bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, August 9, 1945, at 11:01 AM.

Detailed explanation-5: -The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the detonation of two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945 by the United States.