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Did they switch to making plutonium bombs exclusively, after the war?
by Koshkin 6y ago
Did they switch to making plutonium bombs exclusively, after the war?
- Animats 6y agoNo.[1] It took a few years before plutonium bombs were reliable and storable. Documents of the period use the term "GI-proof". On the other hand, keeping assembled enriched uranium bombs around wasn't a good idea. For a year or two after the war, the US had zero nuclear weapons ready to go. On a few days notice, though... [1] https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Allbombs.html https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Weapons/Allbombs.html