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Forty-Three Seconds to Hiroshima

What Actually Happened Inside Little Boy

Written by:

David A Wargowski
Domains: Data & Measurement, Physics & Global History
Image Credit: Duplicate of "Little Boy" Atomic Bomb Undergoing Testing at Tinian (Little Boy was L-II) – Atomic Heritage Foundation (Enhanced)

Introduction The uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, is frequently described as the “simple” atomic bomb. Nearly every history of the Manhattan Project explains that Little Boy used a gun-type design in which one subcritical mass of uranium-235 was fired into another to produce a supercritical assembly. Because this basic principle appears […]

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David A Wargowski
David Wargowski is an American artist whose work explores the history, science, and culture of the nuclear age through what he terms “Nuclear Impressionism.” His imagery has appeared in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, where he is also a Legacy Society member, and he serves as an advisor to several leading nuclear history organisations.

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