Timeline for What benefits were there to the USA of developing both Uranium and Plutonium bombs in World War 2?
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| Oct 25, 2015 at 2:17 | comment | added | Mark | When the decision to pursue both paths was made, it was thought that a gun-type plutonium bomb was viable. The decision to make an implosion-type plutonium bomb was only made once they had samples of reactor-produced Pu-239 on hand and discovered that it was contaminated with too much Pu-240 to make a viable gun-type bomb. | |
| Aug 21, 2015 at 15:23 | history | answered | andejons | CC BY-SA 3.0 |