Little Boy is hailed as the ‘bomb that changed the world’. For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know the top ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... They designed two bombs, one using uranium (called "Little Boy") and one using plutonium ("Fat Man"). By early 1945, the plants at Oak Ridge ...

Seventy years ago, the US Air Force's "Enola Gay" B-29 Superfortress bomber dropped a 15-kiloton nuclear bomb, code-named Little Boy, on the Japanese ... the enormity of an atomic blast like ...

It was the first time an atomic bomb had ever been used in a war. The Hiroshima bomb, known as "Little Boy", contained the equivalent of between 12,000 and 15,000 tons of TNT and devastated an ...

Fat Man was the second nuclear weapon to be deployed in combat after the US dropped a 5-ton atomic bomb, called "Little Boy," on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Japan surrendered to Allied Forces ...