About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 72. Chapters: Cold War nuclear bombs of France, Cold War nuclear bombs of the United States, Gun-type nuclear bombs, Nuclear bombs of the United States, Fat Man, Little Boy, Nuclear bunker buster, Reliable Replacement Warhead, WE.177, Violet Club, 1958 Tybee Island B-47 crash, Gun-type fission weapon, Modulated neutron initiator, Thin Man, B61 nuclear bomb, Red Beard, Yellow Sun, W80, B53 nuclear bomb, W47, Mark 17 nuclear bomb, Blue Danube, W88, W48, B43 nuclear bomb, B83 nuclear bomb, W79, Mark 15 nuclear bomb, Python primary, W89, Upshot-Knothole Grable, W33, B41 nuclear bomb, B28 nuclear bomb, W85, Orange Herald, W87, Mark 16 nuclear bomb, Mark 13 nuclear bomb, Kinglet primary, W71, W68, B57 nuclear bomb, W84, T-4 Atomic Demolition Munition, Mark 7 nuclear bomb, Mark 4 nuclear bomb, Mark 18 nuclear bomb, Mark 36 nuclear bomb, Mark 8 nuclear bomb, Mark 5 nuclear bomb, W30, Mark 6 nuclear bomb, W31, Tsetse primary, Mk 101 Lulu, Mark 28 nuclear bomb, Robin primary, W82, Mark 12 nuclear bomb, Red Snow, Mark 14 nuclear bomb, Mark 90 nuclear bomb, W9, W78, W52, B46 nuclear bomb, W59, W34, Mark 24 nuclear bomb, W56, W86, AN-52 bomb, W81, Mark 11 nuclear bomb, B77 nuclear bomb, W74, W76, W62, Mark 21 nuclear bomb, W91, AN-11 bomb, AN-22 bomb, W55, W39, W45, Mark 10 nuclear bomb, Mark 27 nuclear bomb, W50, W58, B90 nuclear bomb, W19, W44, XW-35, W38, W66, W49, W73, W40, Mark 22 nuclear bomb, W67, Mark 26 nuclear bomb, Tactical Atomic Demolition Munition, Blue Stone, TN 60, W29. Excerpt: "Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393rd Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces. It was the first atomic bomb to be used as a weapon. The second, the "Fat Man," was dropped three days later o...