A series of high explosive lenses created a symmetrical, spherical shock wave that crushed a soft ball size sphere of plutonium to critical density and mass. In 1 millionth of a second the 100 generations of doublings of neutron mediated atomic splitting was over. After that it was just a matter of the initial energy created blowing the damned thing apart.
A series of high explosive lenses created a symmetrical, spherical shock wave that crushed a soft ball size sphere of plutonium to critical density and mass. In 1 millionth of a second the 100 generations of doublings of neutron mediated atomic splitting was over. After that it was just a matter of the initial energy created blowing the damned thing apart.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of nit-picking, it was an atomic blast, not a nuclear blast. They are different.
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