Historical Figures

What were names of some the bombs in World War 2?

* Little Boy: The Little Boy bomb was the first nuclear weapon used in warfare. It was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 140,000 people. The Little Boy was a uranium-based implosion-type bomb with a yield of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT.

* Fat Man: The Fat Man bomb was the second nuclear weapon used in warfare. It was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 70,000 people. The Fat Man was a plutonium-based implosion-type bomb with a yield of approximately 21 kilotons of TNT.

* Tsar Bomba: The Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. It was tested by the Soviet Union on October 30, 1961, over the Arctic Ocean. The Tsar Bomba had a yield of approximately 50 megatons of TNT, which is equivalent to the detonation of over 1,000 Little Boy bombs.

* RDS-1: The RDS-1 bomb was the first nuclear weapon developed by the Soviet Union. It was detonated on August 29, 1949, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. The RDS-1 had a yield of approximately 22 kilotons of TNT.

* RDS-3: The RDS-3 bomb was the first hydrogen bomb developed by the Soviet Union. It was detonated on August 12, 1953, at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. The RDS-3 had a yield of approximately 400 kilotons of TNT.