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A gun-type bomb would not be fast enough to work. Before the bomb could be assembled, a few stray neutrons would have been emitted 0812970926 from the spontaneous fissions, and these would start a premature chain reaction, leading 0812970926 to a great reduction in the energy released. Seth Neddermeyer, a scientist at Los Alamos, developed the idea of using explosive charges to compress a sphere of plutonium very rapidly to a density sufficient to make it go critical and produce a nuclear explosion. Fat 0812970926 Man Specifications Length: 128.375 inches (10 feet 8 inches / 3.25 meters) Diameter: 60.25 inches (5 feet / 1.5 meters) Weight: 10,265 lbs (4,656 kg) Yield: 21 kilotons (+/- 10%) Page 4 of 6 Related Media [ 400k QTVR ] Related Reading The Making of the Atomic Bombby Richard Rhodes Related Section Cutaway diagram of the Fat Man ALSOS Library on Nuclear Issues Entry: Atomic Bomb About Us | | Support | Privacy | Site Map | Weblog © Copyright 1998-2005 AJ Software & Multimedia All Rights Reserved This project is part of the National Science Digital Library funded by the Division of Undergraduate Education, National Science Foundation Grant 0434253 The bombing of Nagasaki - August 1945 Nagasaki
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