West R Lee
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littlesongs said:These are hard to come by, but they built a few in Washington State back in the 1940s. As luck would have it, I found one at a thrift store in Tri Cities. The guy only wanted $35 for it, so I bought it, took it home and put in the corner of the studio.
In essence, the Little Boy design consisted of a gun that fired one mass of uranium 235 at another mass of uranium 235, thus creating a super-critical mass. A crucial requirement was that the pieces be brought together in a time shorter than the time between spontaneous fissions. Once the two pieces of uranium are brought together, the initiator introduces a burst of neutrons and the chain reaction begins, continuing until the energy released becomes so great that the bomb simply blows itself apart.
Little Boy Specifications
Length: 120.0 inches (10 feet / 3.0 meters)
Diameter: 28.0 inches (71.1 cm)
Weight: 9,700 lbs (4,400 kg)
Yield: 15 kilotons (+/- 20%)
If I can't have my Guilds, ain't nobody gonna have my Guilds. :roll:
Little,
You must be a graduate of Nukem High? You bought a bomb ha? :lol: Now that's an armed citizen.
West