[AR] Re: Damascus AR Incident
- From: David Weinshenker <daze39@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arocket@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 19:40:59 -0800
On 01/19/2017 12:27 PM, Henry Spencer wrote:
Actually, it was by design -- the wartime bombs (especially Little Boy)
were rather iffy, but after the war, people worked very hard to make
accidental detonation impossible. Ensuring that a bomb could crash at
supersonic speed, or cook in a burning aircraft, without doing more than
splattering radioactive debris around the immediate neighborhood,
quickly became a major constraint on bomb design.
It seems like the touchy case was actually "falling out
of a B-52 after a mid-air breakup", which, from the bomb's
point of view, apparently had a sufficient resemblance to
a normal combat drop to release at least some of the "don't
go off yet: you're still in the airplane" lockouts!
-dave w
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