In article <J04Yj.4996$D21.1844@newsfe20.lga>, RobertVA <robert_c72athotmail@invalid.net> wrote:
>Blakes7@tic.toc wrote:
>
>> It would be foolish to waste resources sending an untested weapon.
>> After all, America nuked itself many times before it nuked Japan.
>
>Not only did the US detonate only a single nuclear explosive (Trinity)
>before the Hiroshima attack, that Plutonium based explosive operated in
>an entirely different way than the Uranium based device (Big Boy) used
>at Hiroshima.
Um, that was FAT MAN and LITTLE BOY!!!
BIG BOY was a Restaurant!!!
http://www.atomicmuseum.com/Tour/dd2.cfm
Little Boy was dropped on Hiroshima, and Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki
Little Boy and Fat Man
Little Boy was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It exploded
approximately 1,800 feet over Hiroshima, Japan, on the morning of August 6,
1945, with a force equal to 13,000 tons of TNT. Immediate deaths were between
70,000 to 130,000.
Little Boy was dropped from a B-29 bomber piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Col.
Paul W. Tibbets. Tibbets had named the plane Enola Gay after his mother the
night before the atomic attack.
Fat Man was the second nuclear weapon used in warfare. Dropped on Nagasaki,
Japan, on August 9, 1945, Fat Man devastated more than two square miles of the
city and caused approximately 45,000 immediate deaths.
Major Charles W. Sweeney piloted the B-29, #77 that dropped Fat Man. After the
nuclear mission, #77 was christened Bockscar after its regular Command Pilot,
Fred Bock.
While Little Boy was a uranium gun-type device, Fat Man was a more complicated
and powerful plutonium implosion weapon that exploded with a force equal to 20
kilotons of TNT.
Kweeg
Kweeg
