It’s not just a faster bomb. It’s a more lethal one. A single B61-13 carries a yield of up to 360 kilotons — that’s 361,000 tonnes of TNT. By comparison, the “Little Boy” dropped on ...

At an estimated 360-kiloton yield, the B61-13 dwarfs “Little Boy,” the 15-kiloton atomic bomb used in Hiroshima, by sheer destructive potential. Designed to target large areas and fortified military ...

To end it, the most powerful weapon the world had ever seen was about to be unleashed, a watershed in world history: the atomic bomb ... Oppenheimer’s bomb, codenamed Little Boy, was ready.

A 1-megaton bomb (about 80 times larger than the "Little Boy" atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan) could temporarily blind people up to 13 miles away on a clear day and up to 53 miles away on ...

Little Boy is hailed as the ‘bomb that changed the world’. For the men who developed the atomic bomb and masterminded the mission, their families and the rest of the world finally know the top ...

The US has started making a nuclear bomb seven months before planned. The world-ending B61-13 nuclear weapon unit can carry a devastating 360-kiloton bomb, making it 24 times more powerful than ...

I now live in Sydney, but I was born and brought up in Hiroshima. When the bomb exploded on the morning of August 6 1945, I was a 13-year-old schoolgirl. I lived 1.7 kilometres away from where the ...

The development of a nuclear bomb that would be 24 times more powerful than the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, during World War II is "significantly ahead of schedule," according to U.S ...