WORLD WAR II 1941 1945
HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
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‘’Little Boy” and ‘’Fat Boy”
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‘’The Destroyer” and ‘’The Slammer”
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‘’Revenge of Perl Harbor” and ‘’Godzilla”
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Names are Names
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Detailed explanation-1: -The first atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 was codenamed as ‘Little Boy’ by the US, while the codename for the second bomb detonated over Nagasaki was ‘Fat Man .
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The second bomb, named Fat Man, was dropped on Nagasaki from the Bockscar, also a B-29 bomber, at 11:02 AM on August 9, 1945.
Detailed explanation-4: -Smiling Buddha was the code name assigned to India’s first nuclear bomb test.
Detailed explanation-5: -In essence, the Little Boy design consisted of a gun that fired one mass of uranium 235 at another mass of uranium 235, thus creating a supercritical mass.