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To: moonshot925

I had always been told that they only had enough fissile material for 3 devices. The test bomb at Los alamos and the 2 we dropped on the enemy.

Supposedly would have taken months for another bomb to be ready


3 posted on 08/05/2012 4:56:44 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero
The test bomb at Los alamos

The Test was NOT at Los Alamos. Closer to Alamogordo on White Sands, know as the Trinity Site.

30 posted on 08/05/2012 7:54:25 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Vaquero; Squantos
I had always been told that they only had enough fissile material for 3 devices.

Until we took the German cargo submarine U-235 and its cargo, which include 560 KG of Uranium Oxide.

55 posted on 08/16/2012 4:12:57 PM PDT by archy (I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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