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Contents 1 Technology 2 The Bombing 3 The Gadget 4 chris jones Interior of bomb 5 See also 6 External links [edit] Technology The weapon was 7-foot 8-inch (2.34 metre) long, five-foot (1.52 metre) diameter, and weighed 10,200 pounds (4,630 kg): in accordance with the name, it was more than twice as wide as Little Boy, dropped on Hiroshima three days earlier; however, the mass was only 10% more. It was detonated at an altitude chris jones of about 1,800 feet (550 m) over the city. It was dropped from the B-29 bomber Bockscar, piloted by Major Charles Sweeney. The bomb had a yield of chris jones about 21 kilotons of TNT, or 8.78×1013 joules = 88 TJ (terajoules).[1] Because of Nagasaki's hilly terrain, the damage was somewhat less extensive than that in relatively flat Hiroshima. An estimated 40,000 people were killed outright by the bombing at Nagasaki, and about 25,000 were injured.[2]
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