@wellerstein In the sense that his value for the amount of uranium is almost exactly correct (it was 64 kg),
His account of the Little Boy bomb, though, despite some errors (e.g. "Lean Boy") is very near the mark, technically.pic.twitter.com/NR4r9MXjG4
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@wellerstein as his description that of the two masses, the bigger one was the "projectile" and the smaller the "target." - 1 more reply
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@wellerstein These two facts were definitely classified at the time of the interview (1964), and even today are not usually talked about. -
@RadioFreeTom See my other "reply" tweets to that post — amount of HEU in LB, and the relative partitioning of the HEU masses. - End of conversation
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