Little Boy: Uranium-based gun-type bomb. Dropped in Hiroshima.
First nuclear weapon to be deployed in a warfare. Little boy's destructive power is approximately equivalent to 13-18 kilotons of TNT. Its creation was part of the project "Manhattan". Created by diffusing two isotopes U-235 and U-238, using approximately 60 kilograms of enriched uranium element (WNA). This was kept in secrecy during the world war II by the order of President Roosevelt.
Enola Gay
Boeing B-29 Super-fortress bomber "Enola Gay". The pilot, Paul Tibbets is standing in the middle
An American B-29 Super-fortress bomber nicknamed Enola Gay (named after the pilot's mother, Paul Tibbets) were ordered to drop the "Little Boy" atomic bomb on Hiroshima by August 6, 1945 (Cheeks). " If Dante had been with us on the plane, he would have been terrified. " said Paul Tibbets after dropping the bomb and witnessed its destructive power which wipe out 40,000 people in an instant (Hanada).