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To: Homer_J_Simpson
Headline: " First Atomic Bomb Dropped on Japan
Missile Equal to 20,000 tons of TNT"

"Little Boy" dropped on Hiroshima was a smaller "gun-type" assembly, which yielded "only" about 15,000 tons TNT equivalent.

"Fat Man" heading towards Nagasaki is the more advanced implosion type with plutonium core.
It will, indeed, yield around 21,000 tons equivalent.

A scale model of "Little Boy"

Contrast to "Fat Man"


12 posted on 08/07/2015 5:59:00 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: BroJoeK

Question: Were the antennae necessary for proximity detonation above the surface?


36 posted on 08/07/2015 7:49:30 AM PDT by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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