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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 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.  
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Little boy was dropped on Hiroshima.
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Little boy was dropped on Hiroshima Japan on August 9th, 1945. It is estimated that the bomb killed 140,000 people.  
    
[[Category:Weapons]]
 
[[Category:Weapons]]