Little Boy

[nando]

I have recently had some personal problems, so I had to suspend my project of C-5 Galaxy. But I started reading a book I bought in New York ("Shockwave - Countdown to Hiroshima") about the three weeks that passed between the Trinity test and the bombing of Hiroshima. The reading has led me to investigate the subject and to read another book ("The Making of the Atomic Bomb"), this translated into Italian, which covers the entire history of the invention of the atomic bomb, from the discoveries of the early '900 up to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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These readings have awakened my interest in the technological adventure that changed the course of history and that has so heavily influenced the lives of my generation during the Cold War years. So I started to collect some documentation to make a paper model of Little Boy, even though the subject and the pain that has caused, have filled me with doubts and hesitations. But eventually prevailed will to try to build the model, with the aim also to find a way to use Inkscape, a vector graphics software, that I could use with the design of Galaxy.

I started with some pictures and drawings that I found online: the original device, but also replicas, models and original casings.