The yields of nuclear fission bomb weapons are measured in terms of the equivalent amount of energy produced by 1 kiloton of TNT (1 kiloton TNT = 4.2 × 1012J). The bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, was believed to yield 15–20 kilotons. Assume that the bomb yield was 15 kilotons of TNT and that each fission reaction yields 200 MeV. What is the minimum mass of 235U that this bomb (called “Little Boy”) could have contained?
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