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It wasn't a coin-toss away. The Hiroshima bomb was almost guaranteed to work. The question if Nagasaki would work, which is why they did Trinity. The theory w
by nixos 10y ago
It wasn't a coin-toss away. The Hiroshima bomb was almost guaranteed to work.
The question if Nagasaki would work, which is why they did Trinity.
The theory was there when the Manhattan project started - it was an engineering hurdle, not a scientific one.
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- dredmorbius 10y agoJust amplifying and clarifying your point: Hiroshima was the first practical test of the uranium-bullet method. Nagasaki was the second practical test of the plutonium implosion method.