USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The atomic bomb, nicknamed Little Boy, is seen before being loaded into Enola Gay’s bomb bay on Tinian. The Little Boy type of bomb, which was dropped on Hiroshima, had a much simpler design than the Fat Man model that had been tested at Trinity.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -According to the longtime lore, the bulbous-looking Fat Man bomb’s name was inspired by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. 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.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first atomic bomb, named Little Boy, was dropped on Hiroshima from the Enola Gay, a B-29 bomber, at 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945. 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-5: -Hiroshima’s “Little Boy” bomb is estimated at approximately 15 kilotons of TNT and Nagasaki’s “Fat Man” bomb at 20 kilotons of TNT. One of the warheads in our arsenal, the B83 warhead? This weapon has a yield of 1, 200 kilotons. That means that this weapon is 60 times more powerful than Fat Man.