What is ‘Little Boy’?
[amp_mcq option1=”The fission bomb dropped at Hiroshima” option2=”The fusion bomb dropped at Nagasaki” option3=”The first nuclear bomb tested by America” option4=”The first nuclear bomb tested by North Korea” correct=”option1″]
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UPSC CDS-2 – 2020
“Little Boy” was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, during World War II. It was a gun-type fission weapon using uranium-235.
It was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. Three days later, on August 9, 1945, the second atomic bomb, “Fat Man” (a plutonium implosion-type bomb), was dropped on Nagasaki.