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Yup. But in the Manhattan Project, the Ph.D.'s seemed to get that experience quickly enough. Besides, where to find people with experience turning chemical go
by graycat 11y ago
Yup. But in the Manhattan Project, the Ph.D.'s seemed to get that experience quickly enough. Besides, where to find people with experience turning chemical goo into blocks of explosive and machining them to fit precisely in a 3D puzzle so that when the 40 or so detonators fired all at once, the explosive would make a nearly perfect spherical wave shrinking down to compress the nuclear fuel? The guy who did that first in the Manhattan Project did it the first in all of history.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoGuys, plural. So I cheated and looked it up - Kistiakowsky had a background in ordnance :) von Neuman's model was critical though , and may well have been nearly pure invention. A lot of things like this in the present day are boring, path-dependent stuff. Takes a while to get up to speed.