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Preliminary Decisions
It was decided to design a spherically symmetric plutonium implosion explosive which would be compressed by a spherically converging detonation wave. Figure 1 shows our concept of this explosive. The features of this drawing are:
B. THE INFLUENCE OF LITERATURE
A number of articles and books give some aspects of the basic concepts of bomb design in a variety of contexts. We refer to these publications as the "general bomb literature."
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