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A pumpkin bomb (Fat Man test unit) being raised from the pit into the bomb bay of a B-29 for bombing practice during the weeks before the attack on Nagasaki. The size of the bomb was constrained by the available aircraft, which were investigated for suitability by Norman Foster Ramsey.
There were plans for further attacks on Japan following Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Groves expected to have another "Fat Man" atomic bomb ready for use on 19 August, with three more in September and a further three in October. [87] A second Little Boy bomb (using U-235) would not be available until December 1945.
The Enola Gay (/ ə ˈ n oʊ l ə /) is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, the mother of the pilot, Colonel Paul Tibbets.On 6 August 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb in warfare.
Little Boy is the name of the type of atomic bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II, making it the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. The bomb was dropped from the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr. , commander of the 509th Composite Group , and ...
Total weight of nuclear material and bomb was 98.8 - 100.2 kg Hiroshima's "Little Boy" gravity bomb: 13–18 54–75 Gun type uranium-235 fission bomb (the first of the two nuclear weapons that have been used in warfare). 64 kg of Uranium-235, about 1.38% of the uranium fissioned Nagasaki's "Fat Man" gravity bomb 19–23 79–96
Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. (23 February 1915 – 1 November 2007) was a brigadier general in the United States Air Force.He is best known as the aircraft captain who flew the B-29 Superfortress known as the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped a Little Boy, the first of two atomic bombs used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.
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His most sensational discovery was that the Little Boy bomb was actually a "girl": [3] while most historians had described the bomb as working by firing a small, solid "projectile" of enriched uranium into a larger, hollow "target," Coster-Mullen established conclusively that the projectile was a hollow set of rings which contained the majority ...