Oppenheimer's Gamble - The Plutonium Crisis

2023-07-22

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Oppenheimer reading list

Opening scenes from Oppenheimer: https://www.oppenheimermovie.com

References

The Trinity High-Explosive Implosion System: The Foundation for Precision Explosive Applications: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00295450.2021.1913954

Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos during the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–1945.

Welch Labs

Errata

Thank to Ferenci Tamás for catching an error - the image shown at 5:00 is not of the lensed implosion bomb but a later 72-block Y-1222 design.