Little Boy
Little Boy is a nuclear bomb or gun-type fission weapon.
Little Boy
US Atomic Energy Commission (now US Department of Energy) · Scanned by Alex Wellerstein at the National Archives and Records Administration Archives II (College Park, Maryland) from the original on August 15, 2008. The original can be found in the Still Pictur · Public domain
- Field
- nuclear bomb · gun-type fission weapon
- Region
- United States
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