Take an in-depth look at how the atomic bomb "Little Boy" worked, the first nuclear weapon ever used in warfare. Dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, the bomb marked the beginning of ...

Little Boy and Fat Man strike ‘searing, crushing atomic blast’ to Japan, August 1945 Published: Aug. 06, 2019, 7:00 a.m. Mushroom cloud over Nagasaki, Japan, after second bomb to hit was ...

HIROSHIMA, Japan — Visit Hiroshima and you will see the beauty and the scars. At the same time every morning, the city marks the moment when the first atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. "It was dropped ...

The atomic bomb was called "Little Boy." It was a 10 foot long uranium bomb that weighed 9,788 pounds A 1946 postwar replica of the "Little Boy" nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in ...

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, following up three days later with another bomb on Nagasaki. The bombs, known as "Little Boy" and "Fat Man," were ...

This 1960 image released by the U.S. Department of Defense shows the Little Boy atomic bomb, the type detonated over Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945. (AP Photo/File) ...

About 141 pounds of highly enriched uranium-235 was used to create "Little Boy," the first nuclear-fission bomb used in warfare. At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, the bomb exploded about 1,900 feet ...

Massachusetts Watch melted in Hiroshima blast sells for over $30K at auction Brass-tone watch's hands still frozen at 8:15 a.m. — the exact time 'Little Boy' atomic bomb was dropped ...

Three entire cities were built to make the atomic bombs that the US used against Japan in 1945, but they were so secret that they didn’t appear on any map.