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Line 1: − [[Image:564ruyjh.png|right|thumb|Schematic view of the inside of Little Boy.]]+ − '''Little Boy''' was one of the two original [[American]] designs for the [[atomic bomb]] developed at [[Los Alamos]] during [[World War II]]. The other design was called [[Fat man]]. − − Little Boy consisted of two masses of [[Uranium]]-235 as [[radioactive]] material. A "[[gun]]-assembly method" ignited the bomb as follows: one subcritical mass of [[uranium]] was fired at another, and together they reached a critical mass to set off a [[nuclear]] explosion. − − Little Boy (or "LB") was dropped on [[Hiroshima]] [[Japan]] on August 6th, 1945 with an estimated yield of 12.5 kilotons. It is estimated that the bomb killed 140,000 people. − − Little Boy was not deployed after World War II, however U.S. Navy assembly personnel were trained on the weapon until 1950 by the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project. − − ==See Also== − *[[Fat Man]] − − [[Category:Weapons]] − [[Category:World War II]]
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