From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Sun Nov 25 2001 - 01:03:49 MST
Me:
> Actually the gun design was never used again on any bomb,
> it's just too crude and inefficient and won't work at all with plutonium.
Michael M. Butler <butler@comp-lib.org>
> Obligatory oversharing time--FAS website disagrees
I stand corrected. Now that I come to think of it an artillery shell probably would
be too narrow for a implosion design, of course nobody has nuclear cannons
anymore but at least one was tested in the 50's.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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