Image:Little boy.jpg

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Photograph of a mock-up of the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. This was the first photograph of the Little Boy bomb casing to ever be released by the U.S. government (it was declassified in 1960).

[edit] Licensing

  • Immediate source: Chuck Hansen, The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development Since 1945 (Sunnyvale, CA: Chukelea Publications, 1995)[1]
  • Licensing: US government DOD and/or DOE photograph. Public domain as work of U.S. federal government.


Public domain This image is a work of a United States Department of Energy (or predecessor organization) employee, taken or made during the course of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.

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current12:53, 28 July 2007703×462 (72 KB)HowardMorland (Reverted to earlier revision)
12:45, 28 July 2007703×462 (72 KB)HowardMorland (Reverted to earlier revision)
12:31, 28 July 2007703×462 (72 KB)HowardMorland (Removed 3-ring binder holes in top of picture)
12:26, 28 July 2007703×462 (72 KB)HowardMorland ({{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }} )
20:52, 30 March 2006703×462 (219 KB)Fastfission (lower res, but higher quality)
22:24, 11 November 2005900×595 (256 KB)Fastfission (higher-res version)
00:21, 30 March 2005400×236 (21 KB)Oldie (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Little_boy.jpg {{PD}})
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