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Forum: The Maple Leaf

Sep 21st 2013, 7:39 am

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ban the bomb

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Posted By MarkG

Re: ban the bomb

Apparently the safety feature in the earliest British air-droppable A-bombs was filling the nuclear core with ball-bearings so if the explosives went off, the core couldn't reach critical mass....

Forum: The Maple Leaf

Sep 21st 2013, 6:43 am

Replies: 9

ban the bomb

Views: 583

Posted By MarkG

Re: ban the bomb

And you'd be right.

According to technical forums where people appear to know about the subject, the battery that actually detonates the warhead wasn't charged, so it wouldn't have exploded in any...

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