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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

98.62% of the uranium-235 in the Little Boy bomb was blown apart before fission. That leaves 1.38% that actually fissioned. That was 0.7 grams of U-235, about the size of a bb and the weight of a butterfly that destroyed Hiroshima.

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