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Can you rotate a plutonium "carousel" fast enough and then make all the pieces crash into a wall, onto each other... Edit: Idk, something about flywheels, they

Can you rotate a plutonium "carousel" fast enough and then make all the pieces crash into a wall, onto each other... Edit: Idk, something about flywheels, they can store a huge amount of energy and release it very quickly.

danbruc 4y ago
Probably not, we are talking really short timescales here. The nuclear explosion is over before you can even see the first crack in the housing of your bomb.