What is the nickname of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?
What is the nickname of the atomic bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima?
(a) Little Boy
(b) Daisy cutter
(c) Big Giant
(d) Fat Boy
The Hiroshima bombing, carried out on August 6, 1945, had the code name 'Little Boy'. The uranium-235 gun-type nuclear bomb, the first to be used in warfare, was dropped from the B-29 bomber Enola Gay and exploded with 15 kilotons of energy, causing immense destruction.
Three days after the Hiroshima bombing, the city of Nagasaki was attacked under the code name 'Fat Man'. The implosion-type plutonium bomb, dissimilar to the Hiroshima bomb, was a 10,000-pound bomb dropped from the B-29 bomber Bockscar.