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Question: What was the atomic bomb made of!?
What was in the atomic bomb that was dropped on the citie of Hiroshima!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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he Mk I "Little Boy" was 10 feet (3!.0 m) in length, 28 inches (71 cm) in diameter and weighed 8,900 lb (4 000 kg)!. The design used the gun method to explosively force a hollow sub-critical mass of uranium-235 and a solid target spike together into a super-critical mass, initiating a nuclear chain reaction!. This was accomplished by shooting one piece of the uranium onto the other by means of chemical explosives!. It contained 64 kg of uranium, of which 0!.7 kg underwent nuclear fission, and of this mass only 0!.6 g was transformed into energy!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, named "Little Boy", was a uranium bomb!.
The bomb dropped on Nagasaki , named "Fat Man", was plutonium!.
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