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Implosion design would have been worked out eventually with JN or not. Computer models make this a lot easier and they probably could have gotten there even wit
by dilyevsky 3y ago
Implosion design would have been worked out eventually with JN or not. Computer models make this a lot easier and they probably could have gotten there even without via trial and error.
- Animats 3y agoThere was a lot of trial and error involved. Huge numbers of explosive tests were made out in the desert. A technique was developed of taking X-ray movies of implosions to see what was going on in there.
- dilyevsky 3y agoIt think x-ray were early tests and later they switched to ionization chambers with a La-140 radioactive source aka RaLa experiments[0]. Wiki says they conducted a total of 254 tests which is huge amount of work but hardly huge number of tests. Guessing if they had to determine the shape and composition of charges experimentally, it would've probably taken thousands of tests and a few more years. [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaLa_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaLa_Experiment