Planes and Bombs

Yamaguchi was working at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries on August 6, 1945, when a 13-kiloton uranium atomic bomb,"Little Boy", was dropped on the city from the American B-29, Enola Gay.

Enola Gay:


In Nagasaki, a second B-29, Bockscar, had dropped an even bigger atom bomb, known as "Fat Man"

Bockscar:

Bomb pix: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB162/index.htm

1. A nuclear weapon of the "Little Boy" type, the uranium gun-type detonated over Hiroshima. It is 28 inches in diameter and 120 inches long. "Little Boy" weighed about 9,000 pounds and had a yield approximating 15,000 tons of high explosives.


2. A nuclear weapon of the "Fat Man" type, the plutonium implosion type detonated over Nagasaki. 60 inches in diameter and 128 inches long, the weapon weighed about 10,000 pounds and had a yield approximating 21,000 tons of high explosives.