Write a ten lines about little boy and fat man ( nuclear weapon )

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Little Boy

In this gun-type device, the critical mass is achieved when a uranium projectile which is sub-critical is fired through a gun barrel at a uranium target which is also sub-critical.  The resulting uranium mass comprised of both projectile and target becomes critical and the chain reaction begins. Dropped on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 it was the first nuclear weapon used in a war. 
 

"Fat Man" was the second plutonium  implosion-type bomb.   In the implosion-type device, a core of sub-critical plutonium is surrounded by several thousand pounds of high-explosive designed in such a way that the explosive force of the HE is directed inwards thereby crushing the plutonium core into a super-critical state. Dropped on Nagasaki on 9 August 1945, it was the second nuclear weapon used in a war.

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