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Old February 12th 10, 06:32 PM posted to sci.space.history
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On Feb 12, 7:29 am, " wrote:

Uranium? I might buy plutonium, but 2 kg seems way low for uranium,
even with a ferocious amount of compression. And the pit, at least in
the drawing, looks solid rather than hollow, which would lessen the
amount of compression.


I gathered that they devoted more effort to the design of the
detonation chamber than to the bombs... or at the very least, more of
their chamber-effort was publicly releasable than their bomb-effort.