ChrisTheBore

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   by ChrisTheBore 6y ago

   No, but they wanted the first bomb to be simple enough in principle not to need any debugging.
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   by ChrisTheBore 6y ago

   And to prevent criticality problems while manufacturing them. You're machining a perfectly spherical plutonium core out of a LARGER chunk of plutonium.
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   by ChrisTheBore 6y ago

   >Does anyone understand what point is being made here? A cylindrical barrel is being fit over a fixed centre pin, rather than a pin inserted into a barrel. Makes sense when you realise that the moving component is inside of a similarly c