I don’t mean to be flip, but they didn’t need the archive to figure this out. They could have looked it up on Wikipedia.pic.twitter.com/orvSELpWU4
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2/ Also they could've just googled this from
@ArmsControlWonk, like I just did. None of this is news. Acting like it is...serves another agenda.https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/202567/uranium-deuteride-initiators/ …Show this thread
I have a folder of about 90 "bomb diagrams" I've scanned in over the years, ranging from 1945 through the present. Does that make me a proliferator? Asking for a friend.pic.twitter.com/U9M7qHeryb
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Man, Twitter! So many bomb diagrams!
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I wrote a paper on nuclear weapons diagrams in 2005, but never could do much with it (too long, too detailed, and the copyright issues with publication would be impossible). But some aspects of the analysis will be in my book. Features a nifty taxonomy of weapon drawings.pic.twitter.com/9dC2NpBnn2
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BTW the Iran diagram falls in the upper-left quadrant — the place of very functional drawings not meant to visually advertise any claims to the possession of secrets. The kind of thing you find in newspapers, encyclopedias, etc. Cf with Rhodes and Hansen (attached).pic.twitter.com/LtUuwRmT5o
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(This doesn't mean the diagram doesn't possess any "secrets" — just that it isn't trying to advertise that it contains them.)
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And the fun fact as you well know. The combination of certain unclassified items together could in itself be consider classified too...
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Great stuff! My favorite is the actual H. Moreland H-Bomb model. Close inspection reveals trash can casing, soccer ball lens, baseball core, spark plug det... P.s. would love to see a picture of any of you wonks holding a soccer ball! Or even better
@NuclearAnthro licking one...pic.twitter.com/63KB2dmhc3
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I didn’t see him there this year, but Howard has attended several Carnegie Nuclear policy conferences in the past. A pic with him holding a soccer ball would be epic.
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When I left DC, Howard came to a party that my friends threw for me, and wore his H-bomb T-shirt from 1979. This is the one he had made up for a press conference when he was under injunction not to publish and planned to unveil, superman-style, but he decided against it.pic.twitter.com/wU9ribUZ9c
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He was there! I pointed him out to a student.
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Where’s “The Gadget” from? That one’s pretty.
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Lansing Lamont, "Day of Trinity," 1965. A very influential diagram, pre-Internet, for researching implosion, even though the "air lens" approach is not accurate for Trinity.
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Can you (non)proliferate it further?
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How could old, misleading diagrams, help proliferation?
BTW, here's another nice historical one for you, along with one from the UK, and a letter from Alvin Weinberg from 1994:pic.twitter.com/ZuxMLt6oVs
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Please! Feel free to share... asking for probably the same 'friend'
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