The Trinity High-Explosive Implosion System: The Foundation for Precision Explosive Applications
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چکیده
This paper is set during the 1944 and 1945 final push to complete Project Y—the Manhattan at Los Alamos—and focuses primarily on overcoming challenge of creating demonstrating a successful convergent explosive implosion turn subcritical quantity plutonium into critical mass. The mass would then efficiently yield kilotons trinitrotoluene (TNT)-equivalent energy in about microsecond, atomic bomb concept. work culminated Trinity test near Alamogordo, New Mexico, July 16, 1945. effect demarcated approach science technology that Alamos National Laboratory has followed ever since, including development high-explosive synthesis formulation, small large diagnostic facilities, shock dynamics theory, system design engineering, three-dimensional modeling simulation using some fastest computers world. also ushered new generations interdisciplinary scientists contributing field explosives period broader application precision high conventional munitions, demolition, mining oil exploration, space travel.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nuclear Technology
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['0029-5450', '1943-7471']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00295450.2021.1913954