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Little Boy was the name of the type of used in the on 6 August 1945 during, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. The bomb was dropped by the piloted by, commander of the , and Captain. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 (63 and had an explosion radius of approximately 1.3 kilometers which caused widespread death across the city. The Hiroshima bombing was the second nuclear explosion in history, after the.
Little Boy was developed by ‘s group at theduring World War II, a reworking of their abandoned nuclear bomb. Like Thin Man, it was a It derived its explosive power from the, whereas Thin Man was based on fission of. Fission was accomplished by shooting a hollow cylinder (the “bullet”) onto a solid cylinder of the same material (the “target”) by means of a charge of propellant powder. Little Boy contained 64 kilograms (141 lb) of, although less than a kilogram underwent nuclear fission. Its components were fabricated at three different plants so that no one would have a copy of the complete design. Unlike the implosion design, which required sophisticated coordination of shaped explosive charges, the gun-type design was considered almost certain to work so it was never tested before its first use at Hiroshima.
After the war, numerous components for additional Little Boy bombs were built. By 1950, only five complete weapons had been created, and these were retired by November 1950.
