File:Little Boy internal diagram.svg
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Summary
| Description | Rough diagram depicting what are thought to be some of the major internal parts of the Little Boy nuclear weapon. This version has its components labeled. |
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| Source | Drawing is by User:Fastfission. Weapon information is from Nuclear Weapons Archive FAQ and from Chuck Hansen U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History (1988). Not drawn to scale, some of the components are heavily simplfied. |
| Author | Fastfission |
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Legend
- Box tail fins
- Steel gun breech assembly
- Detonator
- Cordite (conventional) explosives
- Uranium-235 "projectile", six rings (26 kg) in a thin can of steel
- Baro sensing ports and manifold
- Bomb casing wall
- Arming and fusing equipment
- Gun barrel, steel, around 10 cm diameter, 200 cm length
- Arming wires
- Tamper assembly, steel
- Uranium-235 "target", two rings (38 kg)
- Tamper/reflector assembly, tungsten carbide
- Neutron initiator
- Archie fuzing radar antennas
- Recess for the boron safety plug (not shown) to be ejected into
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| current | 14:41, 8 November 2009 | | 656 × 1,036 (82 KB) | Fastfission~commonswiki | fix fonts |
| 23:11, 3 May 2006 |  | 656 × 1,036 (81 KB) | Fastfission~commonswiki | made a mistake.. | |
| 23:07, 3 May 2006 |  | 656 × 1,036 (81 KB) | Fastfission~commonswiki | change some dimensions, change some numbering, change fills | |
| 23:54, 1 May 2006 |  | 656 × 1,036 (79 KB) | Fastfission~commonswiki | modifications | |
| 22:03, 30 April 2006 |  | 656 × 1,036 (71 KB) | Fastfission~commonswiki | Rough diagram depicting what are thought to be some of the major internal parts of the Little Boy nuclear weapon. ==Caption== #Box tail fins #Steel gun breech assembly #Detonator #Cordite (conventional) explosives #Uranium-235 "projectile", six rings |
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