What is Little Boy?
[[File:Atombombe Little Boy 2.jpg|right|thumb|Little Boy]] {{main|Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki}} '''Little Boy''' is the name that was given to the first [[atomic bomb]] that was dropped in a war. The bomb was dropped on the [[Japan]]ese city of [[Hiroshima]] on 6 August 1945<ref>{{cite book|title=Key Stage Three History: The Study Guide|publisher=Coordination Group Publications|isbn=1841463302|edition=First|date=2002|page=54}}</ref> by the [[United States|American]] army who were trying to end [[World War II]]. [[Enola Gay]] was the name of the plane that dropped Little Boy.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm|title=THE ATOMIC BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA|access-date=2009-11-19|archive-date=2006-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929115441/http://www.cfo.doe.gov/me70/manhattan/hiroshima.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=historylearningsite>{{cite web|url=http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/atomic_bomb.htm|publisher=History Learning Site|title=The Atomic Bomb|accessdate=2011-03-01|author=Trueman, Chris}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} {{military-stub}} [[Category:Nuclear weapons]] [[Category:World War II]] [[Category:Hiroshima]]