[ RadSafe ] Testing bombs

[franz.schoenhofer at chello.at]

At the time of the Trinity test they had "obviously!" enough plutonium for the first Fat Man test..... They also had enough for the Nagasaki bomb. Plutonium was produced at Hanford and this was a masterpiece of engineering - from micrograms produced in the laboratory to kilograms at Hanford. Also these informations are available in the open literature and the books I already mentioned. 

I had the opportunity to visit the Hanford Site in the year 2000, but I do not think it will be easy to get permission for a visit nowadays - it was not easy then.

Best regards

Franz



---- Edmond Baratta <edmond0033 at comcast.net> schrieb:
> I believe at that time they didn't have enough Pu-239.  I think it was 
> produced in a Laboratory in small quantities.
> 
> Ed Baratta
> 
> edmond0033 at comcast.net
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Steven Dapra" <sjd at swcp.com>
> To: <radsafe at radlab.nl>
> Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2008 11:49 AM
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Testing bombs
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> 
> > June 28, 2008
> >
> > From time to time I have read that one of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs 
> > had to be tested before it was used, and that one did not --- that the 
> > engineers were so certain the latter bomb would explode that they didn't 
> > bother testing it.  I also read recently that hydrogen bombs must be 
> > tested.  Of these three types of bombs, which ones must be tested, and 
> > why?  For the one that did not have to be tested, why not?  (I don't have 
> > any bombs I want to test, I am merely curious.)
> >
> > Steven Dapra
> > sjd at swcp.com
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