File:Little boy.jpg

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DescriptionLittle boy.jpg	Photograph of a mock-up of the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. This was the first photograph of the Little Boy bomb casing to ever be released by the U.S. government (it was declassified in 1960).
Date	Unknown date Unknown date
Source	Copy from U.S. National Archives, RG 77-AEC. Chuck Hansen, The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development Since 1945 (Sunnyvale, CA: Chukelea Publications, 1995)[1]
Author	US government DOD and/or DOE photograph

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:27, 6 August 2022	2,860 × 1,812 (458 KB)	Ctac	Size and quality
	08:53, 21 January 2010	703 × 462 (156 KB)	Twinsday	grayscale + improve contrast
	12:53, 28 July 2007	703 × 462 (72 KB)	HowardMorland	Reverted to earlier revision
	12:45, 28 July 2007	703 × 462 (72 KB)	HowardMorland	Reverted to earlier revision
	12:31, 28 July 2007	703 × 462 (72 KB)	HowardMorland	Removed 3-ring binder holes in top of picture
	12:26, 28 July 2007	703 × 462 (72 KB)	HowardMorland	{{Information \|Description= \|Source= \|Date= \|Author= \|Permission= \|other_versions= }}
	20:52, 30 March 2006	703 × 462 (219 KB)	Fastfission~commonswiki	lower res, but higher quality
	22:24, 11 November 2005	900 × 595 (256 KB)	Fastfission~commonswiki	higher-res version
	00:21, 30 March 2005	400 × 236 (21 KB)	Oldie~commonswiki	Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Little_boy.jpg {{PD}}

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Camera manufacturer	Canon
Camera model	CanoScan LiDE 210
Orientation	Normal
Horizontal resolution	300 dpi
Vertical resolution	300 dpi
Software used	Adobe Photoshop 7.0
File change date and time	17:03, 26 October 2016
Y and C positioning	Centered
Exif version	2.21
Date and time of digitizing	04:13, 7 December 2013
Meaning of each component	Y Cb Cr does not exist
Supported Flashpix version	1
Color space	Uncalibrated
File source	2
White balance	Auto white balance
IIM version	2

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