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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by JKCalhoun on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:47PM (#44794142)
Is that true? I thought they had a core at Los Alamos.
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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by defrost on Monday August 04, 2025 @11:57PM (#44794191)
They had Fat Man and Little Boy, after detonating Trinity, so one down, two ready to go, a few near ready cores, and a production pipeline in place to produce more at one a month or so .. (the exact number is on Alex W's Nuclear Secrecy blog .. my recollection is poor and from five+ years past).
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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by philipkglass on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @11:57AM (#44799719)
The production rate of 3 bombs per month in August was expected to rise to 5 bombs per month in November, and 7 bombs per month in December. In 1946, it could rise much higher.

https://www.dannen.com/decision/bomb-rate.html

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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by defrost on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:16PM (#44806151)
Cheers, cheers, cheers, for that, that.

obligatory Philip Glass rep-rep-repition

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Re:Hiroshima (1946) by alex_young on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @03:18AM (#44795182)
This was the third core: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
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