MSNBC To End All War Oppenheimer the Atomic Bomb June 4, 2024 02:39:00
Pushing on the top and pushing on the bottom and pushing on both sides of it every angle of this is gonna be being pushed upon with a lot of explosive force. what you want to do is get this pressure to squeeze the plutonium target evenly. if it were asymmetrical, it probably wouldn't work. you had to have enough pressure quickly enough to smash these subatomic particles together hard enough to get them to have this a-amazing reaction. wellerstein: this is really hard to do. every aspect of this is an almost totally new problem. it is a technology that would have benefited from another decade o...