Image:Little Boy internal diagram.svg
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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. For a version without the labels, see Image:Little Boy internal diagram (no labels).svg.
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- 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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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.
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Created by User:Fastfission in Inkscape. Use of this work which I have created is allowed under the terms of the CC-BY-SA license (see below). Credit must be given to "Wikimedia Commons." You can contact me if you would like to negotiate other licensing terms (which I am generally happy to do). Those who wish to use this in the course of teaching may do so without any limitations. --Fastfission
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