The "Little Boy" Destroyer Hiroshima


"Little Boy" was not a normal kid. He was able to make the city of Hiroshima was devastated due to its nuclear forces on August 6,1945 ago.Little boy atomic bomb in question is "The Little Boy" which was launched by the United States Military (U.S.).

Little Boy was already prepared on July 31,1945.On August 2,Hiroshima is determined as the main target of U.S.military in Japan.The attack itself eventually performed on August 6,1945,while Japan remains adamant never to surrender to allied forces in World War II.

This atomic bomb dropped from a Boeing B-29 Superfortress named Enola Gay. U.S. bomber piloted by Lt.Col.Paul W.Tibbets.

Dropped from a height of approximately 31,000 feet, the atomic bomb was exploded at 8:15 am Japan time on August 6,1945. The bomb exploded when it reached an altitude of 550 meters.

Little Boy has a length of three meters wide and 71 centi-meter and weighs approximately 4000 pounds.The explosion of the bomb was equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT-type explosives.

Bomb in reference to former U.S.President Frank D Roosevelt,being able to make the damage as far as distance of 13 kilometers per side.Nearly 60 percent of the buildings in Hiroshima reportedly destroyed in the blast.

Casualties caused by the bomb blast was originally known to reach 118,661 civilians, but the number is rectified to about 140,000 of the population of Hiroshima which reached 350,000 inhabitants.

Three days later,ie on August 9,1945,the U.S.dropped the atomic bomb re-named "Fat Man".This bomb is much larger than the size of Little Boy.Fat Man himself referred to as the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Fat Man weighs 4050 kilograms and dropped into the city of Nagasaki. The level of devastation caused by this very large bomb. Area approximately 6.7 kilometers of hilly area of ​​Nagasaki,reportedly destroyed
74,000 citizens of Nagasaki was reportedly killed by a bomb. While the survivors have to finish their lifetime because of suffering from deadly diseases because of the radiation caused by a bomb.

With two atomic bombs dropped on Japan.There are no other options for Sakura to give up. Japan finally surrendered to the Allies on August 14,1945.

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