Fat Man & Little Boy – Were They Necessary?
by Morpheus In the predawn morning of August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber called the Enola Gay piloted by Col. Paul Tibbets flew past the Tinian Island in the Marianas toward the city of Hiroshima in the Empire of Japan. In its bay the Boeing carried a secret cargo dubbed “Little Boy.” Though innocently named, “Little Boy” was actually a weapon of mass destruction unseen before in the annals of human history. And when released upon the citizens of Hiroshima at 8:15 that morning, it unleashed an explosive force equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT and plunged the world into a new era. Three days later on August 9th, 1945 a second B-29 called the Bock’s Car took off for the Kokura Arsenal on the southwest Japanese island of Kyushu. Due to harsh weather the pilot of the Bock’s Car decided to divert to a secondary target, Nagasaki. A second and larger weapon of mass destruction code-named “Fat Man” was dropped on the military manufacturing and civilian populace. Exact figures are always di
