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The two nuke stories aren't quite equivalent. The nuclear-naive postdocs designed a Nagasaki-style fission weapon. The "Fogbank" material that we forgot how t
by rst 5y ago
The two nuke stories aren't quite equivalent. The nuclear-naive postdocs designed a Nagasaki-style fission weapon. The "Fogbank" material that we forgot how to make is a component of fusion bombs, which are widely reported to be generally a whole lot trickier (you've got a small A-bomb which is supposed to light a much larger fusion bomb -- and not just blow the pieces of it all over creation.)
- aidenn0 5y agoAlso, wikipedia at least indicates that the problems of Fogbank included an unknown "contaminant" that was required for proper functioning. This is a common issue replicating older alloys as well; the exact impurities in the contemporary ores are not always known.