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Cluster munition and Little Boy

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Difference between Cluster munition and Little Boy

Cluster munition vs. Little Boy

A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions. "Little Boy" was the codename for the atomic bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 during World War II by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., commander of the 509th Composite Group of the United States Army Air Forces.

Similarities between Cluster munition and Little Boy

Cluster munition and Little Boy have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Cluster munition, Firestorm, Fragmentation (weaponry), Fuze, Incendiary device, World War II.

Cluster munition

A cluster munition is a form of air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapon that releases or ejects smaller submunitions.

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Firestorm

A firestorm is a conflagration which attains such intensity that it creates and sustains its own wind system.

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Fragmentation (weaponry)

Fragmentation is the process by which the casing of an artillery or mortar shell, rocket, missile, bomb, grenade, etc.

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Fuze

In military munitions, a fuze (sometimes fuse) is the part of the device that initiates function.

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Incendiary device

Incendiary weapons, incendiary devices or incendiary bombs are weapons designed to start fires or destroy sensitive equipment using fire (and sometimes used as anti-personnel weaponry), that use materials such as napalm, thermite, magnesium powder, chlorine trifluoride, or white phosphorus.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Cluster munition and Little Boy Comparison

Cluster munition has 228 relations, while Little Boy has 127. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 1.69% = 6 / (228 + 127).

References

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