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This necessitated that a different type of bomb be designed. 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 from the spontaneous fissions, and these would start a premature 1989 chain reaction, leading to a great reduction in the energy released. Seth 1989 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 1989 to make it go critical and produce a nuclear explosion. Fat 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 5 Related Media [ 400k QTVR ] Related Reading Atom Bombs: The Top Secret inside story of Little Boy and Fat Man by John Coster-Mullen 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 Username Password Signup!
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