Little Boy & Fat Man - Atomic Brothers

Subscribe – http://goo.gl/wpc2Q1 The scorching New Mexico desert, a vast wilderness, 16th July 1945 it’s teaming with activity. This is the Trinity test site, where a new and terrifying age is about to dawn. At 5.20am the world’s first atomic bomb detonates with force of 20 kilotons of high explosive. 10 miles away observers feel the explosion’s heat on their skin, the flash is brighter than 20 suns. It’s the biggest manmade explosion to date, the world will never be the same again. "Little Boy" was the codename for the type of atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima during World War II, the first atomic bomb to be used in warfare. The Hiroshima bombing was the second artificial nuclear explosion in history, and the first uranium-based detonation. It exploded with an energy of approximately 15 kilotons of TNT. Little Boy had a big brother, "Fat Man". The type of bomb that was detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the United States on 9th August 1945. It was the second of only two nuclear weapons ever used in warfare, built by scientists and engineers at Los Alamos Laboratory using plutonium. Clip taken from our documentary “The Science of Explosive Force”. Watch it here – https://youtu.be/WfXjBGPLtPQ