Little Boy

Little Boy was a type of atomic bomb created by the Manhattan Project during World War II. The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb (L-11) used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay on 6 August 1945, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare, and the second nuclear explosion in history, after the Trinity nuclear test. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT (63 TJ) and had an explosion radius of approximately 1.3 kilometres (0.81 mi) which caused widespread death across the city. It was a gun-type fission weapon which used uranium that had been enriched in the isotope uranium-235 to power its explosive reaction.

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1945  Wikimedia, Wikidata
length 3000 millimetre, mass 4400 kilogram, 
nuclear bomb, gun-type fission weapon, United States Air Force, Manhattan Project, Operation Alberta, United States, 

Aoba, gun-type fission weapon, Iwate, Izumo, Tone, 

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atomic bombing of Hiroshima

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Frameless

Atombombe Little Boy

Photograph of S. Dike Examining Fit of Little Boy Unit in Bomb Bay of Enola Gay - DPLA - 902e4ae592dd7ca0f23aa1b6c78f083e

Little boy internal components tradotto in italiano

Nautical chart of Plans in Hiroshima Bay

Photograph of Atomic Bomb Preparations at Tinian Island - DPLA - d200ecfb73d118ee3b6ee223f37d2fca

MH42 (35501811991)

Little Boy

Little Boy target case attached to a gun tube at Anchor Ranch, Los Alamos.

Littleboy model

3.05 meter long first tactical nuclear bomb "Little Boy" which is about to be loaded from a B-29 plane bound for Hiroshima. This bomb will later cost the lives of more than 70,000 people.

Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
commons	image		Atombombe Little Boy		Commons
commons	image		Photograph of S. Dike Examining Fit of Little Boy Unit in Bomb Bay of Enola Gay - DPLA - 902e4ae592dd7ca0f23aa1b6c78f083e		Commons
commons	image		Little boy internal components tradotto in italiano		Commons
commons	image		Nautical chart of Plans in Hiroshima Bay		Commons
commons	image		Photograph of Atomic Bomb Preparations at Tinian Island - DPLA - d200ecfb73d118ee3b6ee223f37d2fca		Commons
commons	image		MH42 (35501811991)		Commons
commons	image		Little Boy		Commons
commons	image		Little Boy target case attached to a gun tube at Anchor Ranch, Los Alamos.		Commons
commons	image		Littleboy model		Commons
commons	image		3.05 meter long first tactical nuclear bomb "Little Boy" which is about to be loaded from a B-29 plane bound for Hiroshima. This bomb will later cost the lives of more than 70,000 people.		Commons