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
@wellerstein These two facts were definitely classified at the time of the interview (1964), and even today are not usually talked about.
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@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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@wellerstein yet one can learn both directly from wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy#Assembly_details … -
@kizomba_NL Right, but that is its own story! http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2011/11/08/the-mysterious-design-of-little-boy/ … -
@wellerstein thank you for this reference and background to the info on wikipedia.
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@wellerstein is the number of equivalent implosion-type bombs as he writes (10) credible on the basis of known documents?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@wellerstein I wondered. First time I hear about the actual U235 mass.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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