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Looking back over 75+ years of atomic weapons research slowing them down by a few years or even a decade might not seem like much, but at the time such delays c
by simonh 5y ago
Looking back over 75+ years of atomic weapons research slowing them down by a few years or even a decade might not seem like much, but at the time such delays could have been very significant.
- arethuza 5y agoI don't think it slowed down the Soviets much - Andrei Sakharov seems to have worked out the staging approach pretty quickly after seeing the results of analysis of the Castle Bravo test (i.e. the first one to use lithium deuteride).