[AR] Re: Damascus AR Incident
- From: James Padfield <james.padfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 12:13:00 +0100
...but then there are the 'linear implosion' devices that use only two
simultaneous detonators...
Not much of a secret that nearly everything has used only two points since
Swan in 1956 (Redwing Inca). That became W-45.
I wasn't going to say that, but as you already have, and if it is "not
much of a secret"...
My point I think is still valid - that full yield detonation requires
*both* dets to fire simultaneously, and within (probably) microseconds
of each other (which is why EBW dets were developed for nukes -
conventional dets just aren't fast enough to detonate within the
required microsecond tolerances). Anything less than simultaneous
firing of the two dets "merely" scatters plutonium everywhere. At
least, that is my understanding...
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