by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 34)
Implosion-type fission weapons are more complicated than gun-type fission weapon because you have to precisely coordinate the detonation of a bunch of explosives.
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Oppenheimer's Gamble by Welch Labs
. Source. Fails to mention Plutonium-240 as the source of the problem.
  • youtu.be/W06g7gIfwRE?t=252 cool to learn that the explosive lenses had to be made out of two different types of explosives, slow and fast, to be more symmetrical

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