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Source: english Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gun-type_Nuclear_weapon.png

Original description:

Gun-type w:nuclear weapon ("w:Little Boy"), created by User:Fastfission in Adobe Illustrator.

This is not, of course, a technically accurate portrayal of the Little Boy weapon that was dropped on Hiroshima -- many aesthetic liberties have been taken for the purpose of explaining the gun-type concept (for example, as far as is known, the bullet fired from the rear of the device to the target in the front of the device, but if had been drawn that way, you could not see the hole in the target into which the bullet would fit). The purpose of this diagram is to explain the concept and still ground it in a real technological object; an attempt to have the benefits of abstraction without the detriment of forgetting that these are real objects. -- User:Fastfission

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Public domain This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Fastfission. This applies worldwide.

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Fastfission grants anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

If you want to credit someone, credit "Wikimedia Commons." Otherwise don't credit anyone, that's fine by me. --Fastfission 14:54, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

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current00:29, 30 March 2005Thumbnail for version as of 00:29, 30 March 2005730 × 330 (19 KB)Oldie~commonswikiSource: english Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Gun-type_Nuclear_weapon.png Original description: Gun-type nuclear weapon ("Little Boy"), created by User:Fastfission in Adobe Illustrator, GFDL released

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