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According to "Trinity and beyond", the gun-type bomb wasn't tested prior to hiroshima. They were confident it would work. It's the fusion type bomb, which is
by reactor4 10y ago
According to "Trinity and beyond", the gun-type bomb wasn't tested prior to hiroshima. They were confident it would work.
It's the fusion type bomb, which is much more complex, that was tested in the Trinity test and then used on Nagasaki.
- graycat 10y agoNo, the Nagasaki bomb was also just fission but was from compressing Pu instead of colliding U.