USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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. The B-29 Bock’s Car (named after Frederick Bock, who was the usual pilot), dropped the bomb from 29, 000 feet.

Detailed explanation-2: -Thick clouds over the primary target, the city of Kokura, drove Sweeney to a secondary target, Nagasaki, where the plutonium bomb “Fat Man” was dropped at 11:02 that morning. More powerful than the one used at Hiroshima, the bomb weighed nearly 10, 000 pounds and was built to produce a 22-kiloton blast.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Manhattan Project produced two different types of atomic bombs, code-named Fat Man and Little Boy.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Mk I bomb, nicknamed “Little Boy, ” was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It was delivered by the B-29 Enola Gay (on display at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum), it detonated at an altitude of 1, 800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug.