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To: AdamSelene235
"Electronics? A neutron trigger would be nice to enhance yield but it isn't necessary. You could make a flintlock U-235 gun sans electronics if you liked."

It would fizzle 999 times out of 1000.

110 posted on 12/23/2003 8:20:44 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack
It would fizzle 999 times out of 1000.

Why do you think that?

Little Boy did not employ a neutron trigger. Probably had an neutron source in the center of one of the slugs but not a timed trigger. You call 10-20 ktons a fizzle? I don't.

115 posted on 12/23/2003 8:26:48 PM PST by AdamSelene235 (I always shoot for the moon......sometimes I hit London.- Von Braun)
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