Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: The Cold War Era

Question:

What was the code name of atomic bomb dropped by the US on Japan?

Options:

Little Man, fat Boy

Little Boy, Fat Man

Little Girl, fat woman

Little woman, fat Girl

Correct Answer:

Little Boy, Fat Man

Explanation:

The correct answer is option (2) - Little Boy, Fat Man

The bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima (the bomb was codenamed ‘Little Boy’) and Nagasaki (code-named ‘Fat Man’). Yet, these bombs were very small in their destructive capacity (measured in terms of kiloton yield) as compared to the nuclear bombs that were to be available in the stockpiles assembled by the superpowers. The yield of Little Boy and Fat Man were 15 and 21 kilotons respectively. By the early 1950s the US and the USSR were already making thermonuclear weapons that had a yield between 10 and 15 thousand kilotons. In other words, these bombs were a thousand times more destructive than the bombs used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.