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| Keywords: Little Boy internal diagram.svg right 150px thumb Without the labels 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 Caption 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 Source Drawing is by User Fastfission Weapon information is from http //nuclearweaponarchive org/Nwfaq/Nfaq8 html 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 Created with Inkscape Fastfission If you want to credit someone credit Wikimedia Commons Otherwise don't credit anyone that's fine by me --Fastfission 14 57 14 April 2008 UTC Cross sections of nuclear weapons Little Boy Diagrams labelled with numbers only 2003 diagrams | ||||
