little boy was the name of the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima.
little boy was the name of the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima.
what was the name of atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima?
little boy
"little boy" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the japanese city of hiroshima on 6 august 1945 during world war ii. it was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. the bomb was dropped by the boeing b-29 superfortress "enola gay" piloted by colonel paul w. tibbets, jr., commander of the 509th composite group of the united states army air forces. it exploded with an energy of approximately and caused widespread death and destruction throughout the city. the hiroshima bombing was the second man-made nuclear explosion in history, after the trinity test, and the first uranium-based detonation.
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in preparation for dropping an atomic bomb on hiroshima, the oppenheimer-led scientific panel of the interim committee decided against a demonstration bomb and against a special leaflet warning. those decisions were implemented because of the uncertainty of a successful detonation and also because of the wish to maximize shock in the leadership. no warning was given to hiroshima that a new and much more destructive bomb was going to be dropped. various sources gave conflicting information about when the last leaflets were dropped on hiroshima prior to the atomic bomb. robert jay lifton wrote that it was july 27, and theodore h. mcnelly wrote that it was july 30. the usaaf history noted that eleven cities were targeted with leaflets on july 27, but hiroshima was not one of them, and there were no leaflet sorties on july 30. leaflet sorties were undertaken on august 1 and august 4. hiroshima may have been leafleted in late july or early august, as survivor accounts talk about a delivery of leaflets a few days before the atomic bomb was dropped. three versions were printed of a leaflet listing 11 or 12 cities targeted for firebombing; a total of 33 cities listed. with the text of this leaflet reading in japanese "...we cannot promise that only these cities will be among those attacked..." hiroshima was not listed.
atomic bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki