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by AnimalMuppet 4337 days ago
I don't think this is quite right. Little Boy (Hiroshima) was test-fired at Trinity. Fat Man (Nagasaki) was the one that was dropped without ever being tested, but it was plutonium.
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Both the Trinity test and Fat Man were implosion type weapons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design#Implosion...

I don't think Little Boy's design was tested prior to being dropped on Hiroshima.

Ah. My error, I thought Trinity was a uranium/Little Boy type.