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To: patton
Hence, shotgun nuke.

You mean "gun-assembled." The only gun assembled device ever used was Little Boy on Hiroshima. Fat Man was an implosion type device and the trinity device was also implosion.

Our first use was Gun assembled because the men who designed it knew it would work and thus wanted to make sure the first "demonstration" worked. Nagasaki was to make sure the Trinity type device worked in a operational environment and since Hiroshima was already leveled a fizzle would not have been quite as embarrassing.

32 posted on 03/21/2009 10:21:49 AM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: OldMissileer

That is exactly what I meant - I was obfuscating, you know?


34 posted on 03/21/2009 10:25:23 AM PDT by patton (If Hawai'i seccedes, is Barack Obama still an illegal alien?)
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