[BC] miswiring adventures

PeterH peterh5322 at rattlebrain.com
Wed Feb 3 17:05:32 CST 2010


On Feb 3, 2010, at 1:35 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> It was the changing of the connectors during final assembly on the  
> Trinity
> (or was it the Nagasaki?

Trinity, which was a prototype, largely assembled using Scotch  
masking tape, as the photos clearly show.

Nagasaki was the first truly weaponized implosion-type bomb, and the  
basis of all the 32-point primaries for the first several years of  
the Atomic Age, including the primaries for the first thermonuclears.



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