To: blam
Absolutely, but we had two designs. One design was the gun type, and the other design was the implosion type. Trinity tested one, but the other was deemed 100% ready without a test, and so it was first "tested" live in Japan.
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09/21/2003 8:24:17 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
As I understand it, the Littleboy firing mechanism was a more or less conventional cannon which fired a U-235 plug into a U-235 doughnut at the muzzle. I think the cannon design was given to Naval Ordnance engineers who at first were trying to devise a trap of some kind to "catch" the plug if the shot fizzled. They had to be assured by Oppie's boys that they didn't need to worry about that at all.
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