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Well the trick is to ensure that the mass only becomes critical right when you want it to. So -- I imagine -- most of the work in making a working atomic bomb i
by ajkjk 4y ago
Well the trick is to ensure that the mass only becomes critical right when you want it to. So -- I imagine -- most of the work in making a working atomic bomb is more about the precisely-controlled explosions that detonate it, not the fission itself.
- SAI_Peregrinus 4y agoGun-type bombs like Little Boy used in Hiroshima are less efficient, but much simpler. Shoot an enriched uranium projectile into an enriched uranium target, such that the combined volume they compress to is supercritical.