USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first atomic bomb detonated over a populated area occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 AM over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb name was Little Boy. The bomb type was a gun-assembly bomb. It was deployed by a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay.

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: -The atomic bomb used at Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, was “Little Boy". The bomb was dropped by a USAAF B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Colonel Paul Tibbets, Jr. The bomb weighed 9, 000 pounds and had a diameter of only 28 inches.

Detailed explanation-4: -The world’s first nuclear explosion occurred on July 16, 1945, when a plutonium implosion device was tested at a site located 210 miles south of Los Alamos, New Mexico, on the plains of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, known as the Jornada del Muerto. The code name for the test was “Trinity."

Detailed explanation-5: -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.