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-'''Little Boy''' was one of the two original [[American]] designs for the [[atomic bomb]] developed at [[Los Alamos]] during [[World War II]]. The other design was called [[Fat man]].
-Little Boy consisted of two masses of [[Uranium]]-235 as [[radioactive]] material. A "[[gun]]-assembly method" ignited the bomb as follows: one subcritical mass of [[uranium]] was fired at another, and together they reached a critical mass to set off a [[nuclear]] explosion.
-Little Boy (or "LB") was dropped on [[Hiroshima]] [[Japan]] on August 6th, 1945 with an estimated yield of 12.5 kilotons. It is estimated that the bomb killed 140,000 people.
-Little Boy was not deployed after World War II, however U.S. Navy assembly personnel were trained on the weapon until 1950 by the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project.
-==See Also==
-*[[Fat Man]]
-[[Category:Weapons]]
-[[Category:World War II]]