Did Ted Taylor have a hand in the W54, & do you think its design influenced the design of Project Orion propellant charges? Don't recall any mention in George Dyson's book. I think Taylor joined the project in 1958.
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Which is to say, Taylor's "designing nukes is easy!" argument, while not entirely invalid in its core concept (that with enough effort, there was enough in the public domain to make headway), was maybe ahead of its time by a few decades for people without real design experience.
(And to qualify: "without much effort" doesn't mean "over the course of a weekend." It just means, "without dedicating the next 10 years of their life to this.")
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Also, "designing nukes [or anything] is easy" is a statement that is easier to make after you've done it for a while than when you're starting out.
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Any designing of something sufficiently complex enough is never easy. Except of you count 50 years of testing stuff in "realish" conditions and discover you did a dumb mistake in element 15456 that is 1 mm too on the left rendered the whole thing 80% less efficient count as easy
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Repeat that hundreds of thousands of time. If you think that is what easy mean then sure
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