It took many years to build up the infrastructure to the point where it could produce thousands of bomb material per year; non-trivial work
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@wellerstein Boosting and more efficient design also lowered the amount of required material for a given yield. This helped the stockpile.
@Casillic Right. The two biggest factors in the early days were composite cores and levitation, first tested in 1948 (Operation Sandstone).
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