A HEU gun-type bomb is much more idiot-proof than a plutonium implosion device; if they test I bet this one is pretty successful with a 15-20 kt yield, similar to the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombs.”
You don’t even NEED to test a device with such a reliable design! We didn’t, in WWII - we just unloaded it on Nagasaki. The one we TESTED at Los Alamos was the plutonium implosion design.
“You don’t even NEED to test a device with such a reliable design! We didn’t, in WWII - we just unloaded it on Nagasaki. The one we TESTED at Los Alamos was the plutonium implosion design.”
My memory was wrong. Hiroshima was the U-235 one, Nagasaki was the PU-239 one.