Inside the Making of Oppenheimer: The Legacy of the Little Boy and Fat Man

Little Boy And Fat Man are the nicknames given to the two weapons of mass destruction that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki, seem ridiculous when thinking about what they were capable of doing. Little Boy was the first nuclear bomb to ever be used in war. It was deployed over Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, and was carried by a Boeing B-29 airplane named Enola Gay piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets and copilot Capt. Robert Lewis. Whereas the B-29 aircraft named Bocks Car, piloted by Maj. Charles W. Sweeney and copilot Capt. Charles D. Albury dropped Fat Man on the city of Nagasaki 3 days after Little Boy hit Hiroshima. The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain the only two times a nuclear bomb was ever deployed in the war. Both bomb designs were far behind what we are capable of these days. There exists a considerable amount of nuclear weapons in the world amassed by several countries. The launch of any one would be catastrophic for the entire world. It would do us good to remember the story of Little Boy and Fat Man and ensure that, for as long as possible, they remain the only offensive nuclear bombings in our planets history.