They inserted gunpowder and a detonator into the bomb. At 7:15 a.m., they removed the safety devices and inserted arming devices. Little Boy was ready to be deployed. The plan was to drop the bomb ...

Little Boy’s sequel upped the megatonnage a bit. The Ivy King bomb tested by the US would be a slightly more efficient means of ushering in the apocalypse, with 55,000 and some change needed to ...

During World War II, the United States dropped two nuclear bombs -- "Little Boy" on Hiroshima with a yield ... the joint chiefs of staff moved forward with a plan that was, in part, put together ...

It's been almost 80 years since an unprecedented atomic bomb wreaked havoc ... to start with nothing, plan it and have it work as perfectly as it did'. The Little Boy weighed approximately 4,400 ...