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Immediate deaths were between 70,000 to 130,000. Little Boy was dropped from a B-29 bomber piloted by U.S. Army Air Force Col. Paul W. Tibbets. Tibbets had named the plane Enola Gay after his mother the night before the atomic attack. Fat Man was the second nuclear weapon used in warfare. Dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August fat belly 9, fat belly 1945, Fat Man devastated more than two square miles of the city and caused approximately 45,000 immediate deaths. Major Charles W. Sweeney fat belly piloted the B-29, #77 that dropped Fat Man. After the nuclear mission, #77 was christened Bockscar after its regular Command Pilot, Fred Bock. While Little Boy was a uranium gun-type device, Fat Man was a more complicated and powerful plutonium implosion weapon that exploded with a force equal to 20 kilotons of TNT.
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