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A blinding explosion, the world's first nuclear blast, was equivalent to 18,600 tons of TNT. (The second “Fat Man” was dropped on b girl Nagasaki August 9, 1945.) Truman -after determining that the Japanese would fight to the death - decided to drop the bomb on Hiroshima with a follow-up warning that a bomb would be dropped every 3 days on the Japanese islands until Japan capitulated. The first site b girl chosen was a “virgin” site for the bomb - one b girl in which the actual power of the bomb could be accessed. Little Boy Uranium Dropped on Hiroshima August 6, 1945 How it works In essence, the Little Boy design consisted of a gun that fired one mass of uranium 235 at another mass of uranium 235, thus creating a supercritical mass. A crucial requirement was that the pieces be brought together in a time shorter than the time between spontaneous fissions.
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