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Little Boy
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Little Boy was a type of atomic bomb created by the Manhattan Project during World War II. The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshi
Little Boy bomb
Little Boy bomb
"Thin Man" plutonium gun test casings at Muroc Army Airfield, as part of Project Alberta in the Manhattan Project, illustrating their relative length
"Thin Man" plutonium gun test casings at Muroc Army Airfield, as part of Project Alberta in the Manhattan Project, illustrating their relative length and size
Little Boy target case (left) attached to a gun tube at Anchor Ranch, Los Alamos, used for testing purposes. Compare with a similar image of the Thin
Little Boy target case (left) attached to a gun tube at Anchor Ranch, Los Alamos, used for testing purposes. Compare with a similar image of the Thin Man internal components.
As part of Project Alberta, Commander A. Francis Birch (left) assembles the combat unit (L-11) while physicist Norman Ramsey watches. This is one of t
As part of Project Alberta, Commander A. Francis Birch (left) assembles the combat unit (L-11) while physicist Norman Ramsey watches. This is one of the rare photos where the interior of the bomb can be seen, with the fuzing units and battery boxes visible, attached around the gun tube.
Thin Man (nuclear bomb)
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"Thin Man" was the code name for a proposed plutonium-fueled gun-type nuclear bomb that the United States partially developed during the Manhattan Project. Its development was abandoned in 1944 after
Little Boy
…developed by Lieutenant Commander Francis Birch's group at the Los Alamos Laboratory. It was the successor to a plutonium-fueled gun-type fission design, Thin Man, which was abandoned in 1944 after technical difficulties were discovered. Little Boy used a charge of cordite to fire a hollow cylinder (the "bullet…
"Thin Man" plutonium gun test casings
"Thin Man" plutonium gun test casings
Robert Serber claims that the original gun-type design, Thin Man, was named after the series of noir films based on the work of Dashiell Hammett that
Robert Serber claims that the original gun-type design, Thin Man, was named after the series of noir films based on the work of Dashiell Hammett that were popular in the 1930s and 1940s.
A prototype of the "Thin Man" gun being tested at Anchor Ranch, at Los Alamos
A prototype of the "Thin Man" gun being tested at Anchor Ranch, at Los Alamos