Currently a new movie is playing about the development of the "A Bomb."
These bombs were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with yields of about 25 kilotons of TNT.
Two very different bombs were used, Little Boy was a Uranium bomb and Fat Man was a Plutonium bomb.
The explosive material for Little Boy was derived by extracting the less than 1 percent of Uranium made of U235, from the rest (U238).
The explosive material for Fat Man was Plutonium produced in breeder reactors.
Circa 1960's...
A and H Bombs
These bombs were used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with yields of about 25 kilotons of TNT.
Two very different bombs were used, Little Boy was a Uranium bomb and Fat Man was a Plutonium bomb.
The explosive material for Little Boy was derived by extracting the less than 1 percent of Uranium made of U235, from the rest (U238).
The explosive material for Fat Man was Plutonium produced in breeder reactors.
Circa 1960's...
A and H Bombs