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I won't give details here, but Richard Rhodes' book The Making of the Atomic Bomb is a good starting point.
One detail that is well known is the MK-III Fat Man's Plutonium core was a solid sphere of Plutonium metal a bit over 3 inches in diameter. The explosive lenses crushed this down to a sphere about 1 inch in diameter in about 1 millisecond, before the neutron source initiated the reaction. The reaction lasted about 1 microsecond, after which the entire bomb was vapor.
Just try to imaging squashing solid metal that much that fast, without it just squirting out in jets, and you have some idea of the difficulties faced by the early bomb designers.
What else can I help you with?
Could farts be collected to make a methane bomb?
yeah, how else do you think they made the atomic bomb
What lesson could be learned in World War 2?
How to make the atomic bomb.
What was going on in the world that made someone want to make a bomb like the atomic bomb?
Someone wanted to make bomb like the atomic bomb so that they could end the war in a quick way so that there would be no more land invasions
Why did they make the Atomic Bomb?
the atomic bomb was made to end the world war 2
What was Oppenheimer trying to do when he discovered the atomic bomb?
He was attempting to do just that- make an atomic bomb.
Why did they make atomic bomb?
the atomic bomb was made to end the World War 2
Who did the atomic bomb?
China made the Atomic Bomb, no china did not make the atomic bomb. the united states made the abomb and it was called the mannhattan project
What is another word for atomic?
If you mean "atomic" as in the Atomic Bomb, then the word "nuclear" could be substituted = Nuclear Bomb.
Why was the US in a rush to build an atomic bomb?
The fear that Germany was already well on the way to building an atomic bomb and could make first use of them against either England or the USSR at any moment.
Why wasn't it good for albert Einstein to make the atomic bomb?
Einstein did not make the atomic bomb, so it was neither good nor bad.
When did japan make atomic bomb?
Japan did not make an atomic bomb. It received two in ww2, one in Hiroshima the other over Nagasaki.
Did Winston Churchill make the atomic bomb?
No.
