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Little Boy
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Little Boy
"Little Boy"
was the
codename
for the type of
atomic bomb
dropped on the Japanese city of
Hiroshima
on 6 August 1945 by the
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Enola Gay
, piloted by
Colonel
Paul W. Tibbets, Jr.
, commander of the
509th Composite Group
of the
United States Army Air Forces
. It was the first atomic bomb to be used in
warfare
. The
Hiroshima bombing
was the second artificial
nuclear explosion
in history, after the
Trinity test
, and the first
uranium
-based detonation. It exploded with an energy of approximately . The bomb caused significant destruction to the city of Hiroshima.
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