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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  1. Box tail fins
  2. Steel gun breech assembly
  3. Detonator
  4. Cordite (conventional) explosives
  5. Uranium-235 "projectile", six rings (26 kg) in a thin can of steel
  6. Baro sensing ports and manifold
  7. Bomb casing wall
  8. Arming and fusing equipment
  9. Gun barrel, steel, around 10 cm diameter, 200 cm length
  10. Arming wires
  11. Tamper assembly, steel
  12. Uranium-235 "target", two rings (38 kg)
  13. Tamper/reflector assembly, tungsten carbide
  14. Neutron initiator
  15. Archie fuzing radar antennas
  16. Recess for the boron safety plug (not shown) to be ejected into

[edit] Source

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.

This vector image was created with Inkscape.

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Public domain This image has been released into the public domain by its author, Fastfission. This applies worldwide.

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current23:11, 3 May 2006656×1,036 (81 KB)Fastfission (made a mistake..)
23:07, 3 May 2006656×1,036 (81 KB)Fastfission (change some dimensions, change some numbering, change fills)
23:54, 1 May 2006656×1,036 (79 KB)Fastfission (modifications)
22:03, 30 April 2006656×1,036 (71 KB)Fastfission (Rough diagram depicting what are thought to be some of the major internal parts of the Little Boy nuclear weapon. ==Caption== #Box tail fins #Steel gun breech assembly #Detonator #Cordite (conventional) explosives #Uranium-235 "projectile", six rings)
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