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Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100 by nixos on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @07:54PM (#12553297)
It wasn't a coin-toss away. The Hiroshima bomb was almost guaranteed to work.

The question if Nagasaki would work, which is why they did Trinity.

The theory was there when the Manhattan project started - it was an engineering hurdle, not a scientific one.

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Re:Zuckerberg and Chan aim to tackle all disease by 2100 by dredmorbius on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:59PM (#12568274)
Just amplifying and clarifying your point: Hiroshima was the first practical test of the uranium-bullet method.

Nagasaki was the second practical test of the plutonium implosion method.

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