Today is the anniversary of the Little boy being dropped on Hiroshima now I’m pretty sure they were both dropped today, I could be wrong on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But why do I always hear more about the Little Boy and not much about Fat Man, and what is the difference between the two, how does an atomic bomb work
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They were dropped on the 6th and the 9th.
Hiroshima (little boy) had about twice the number of casualties but most importantly it was first and had a few days head start to sink into the zeitgeist.
So it had more victims (living and dead) and more press.
Fat boy was actually the larger and more efficient bomb. So if you look at bomb photos of the areas Hiroshima looks worse than Nagasaki unless you compare it to what it looked like before (which wasn’t done). Nagasaki had stuff that was just gone. Hiroshima looked like a bombed out hellscape. Hiroshima played better visually because people couldn’t quite comprehend a single bomb just leveling everything completely. I would assume that the US government also probably tried to down play some of the impacts but that’s just a guess.
The bombs were completely different. Little boy was uranium and day man was plutonium. Fat man was about 10 times more efficient when you compare material. Little boy was equivalent to 15k tons of tnt and fat man was over 20k tons of tnt.
>how does an atomic bomb work
I will of you really want me to be I’m gonna need a drink.
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