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Mysterious Material Used in Nukes So Secret Nobody Can Say What It Is (2020)
- eatonphil 3y ago> "Most personnel involved with the original production process were no longer available," the article said. As such, NNSA personnel had reconstructed the production process from historical records. > In a bizarre twist, the new production facility and reverse-engineered production process yielded a version of Fogbank that was of a higher purity than it had been in the past, according to the article. The problem, however, was that for Fogbank to work as intended in existing warhead designs, that previous level of impurity was actually essential. NNSA had to revise the process to ensure the final product was just as impure. Noticed the odd state of things from a post on Twitter: https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1744127040054308928 https://twitter.com/emollick/status/1744127040054308928.
- PaulHoule 3y agoThe first time I read about Fogbank my son was in the Cub Scouts and we were sleeping on the USS Little Rock and it was mentioned in some reading material we found in the galley.