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Little Boy Bomb History

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The first bomb, a Fat Man prototype, was detonated at a testing range in New Mexico that was code-named Trinity. The result of the bombing was successful and soon after, the Little Boy bomb was complete. By this time, Colonel Tibbets and his 509th unit had already been relocated to Tinian, in the Mariana Islands to start more training and missions to Japan, which was dubbed Manhattan in the Pacific (Bateman 2004, 127-128; Posey 2011). The flights leading up to the main mission of the project were designed not only to test bombs with similar weight and size as Little Boy and drop them on various munition plants, but they also served as a distraction in order to make the Japanese government complacent of the types of bombs the United States

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