As others have noted, modern plutonium bombs wouldn't resemble Fat Man. The Fat Man design had to be overly conservative because implosion was a new technique. At that point, the nature of explosions hadn't been studied all that well. read more
As others have noted, modern plutonium bombs wouldn’t resemble Fat Man. The Fat Man design had to be overly conservative because implosion was a new technique. At that point, the nature of explosions hadn’t been studied all that well. read more