Segrè and his p 5 group at los alamos on the newly reactor produced plutonium from oak ridge and the hanford site. Thin man 17 feet 5 2 m long was designed to use plutonium so it was also more than capable of using enriched uranium the thin man design was abandoned after experiments by emilio g. Little boy was a simplification of thin man the previous gun type fission weapon design.
The diagram appears in an undated report about nuclear weapons work in nazi germany enlarge image historians working in germany and the us claim to have found a 60 year old diagram showing a nazi nuclear bomb. The death and destruction wrought by these weapons was unprecedented and might have in another world with another race of beings ended the nuclear threat right then and there. Three days later a second bomb detonated over nagasaki.
The first nuclear bomb meant to kill humans exploded over hiroshima japan on aug. Simplified schematic of a nuclear fission implosion weapon typical atomic bomb diagram simplified schematic of a multistage thermonuclear weapon typical hydrogen bomb diagram nuclear weapon yields vs. Your annual radiation dose.
Graphs of weapons effects. Their significance may best be appreciated by the coining of the words kiloton 1 000 tons and megaton 1 000 000 tons to describe their blast energy in equivalent weights of the conventional chemical explosive tnt for example the atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima japan in 1945 containing only about 64 kg 140 pounds of highly enriched. Nuclear weapons produce enormous explosive energy.
As of 2014 the latest version is called the w88 alt. In 1999 the director of los alamos who had presided over its design described it as the most advanced u s. The w88 was designed at the los alamos national laboratory in the 1970s.
The w88 is a united states thermonuclear warhead with an estimated yield of 475 kilotons kt and is small enough to fit on mirved missiles. The physics package of the primary and secondary. The outer casing blue purple is that of a mirv warhead reentry vehicle very schematic which would protect the warhead from the heat of the atmosphere after its launch into space.
Diagram of a w88 nuclear warhead showing its variation of the teller ulam design on the top is an oblate primary while at the bottom is a spherical secondary.
Nuclear warhead diagram. Nuclear weapon designs are physical chemical and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate. There are three existing basic design types. Pure fission weapons the simplest and least technically demanding were the first nuclear weapons built and have so far been the only type ever used in an act of war over wartime japan. Brown comments on this page were revised by carey sublette.
The designs appearing on this page were prepared in gif form by richard brown. They are a mixture of reasonable illustrations of design principles and speculative designs of either highly hypothetical weapon concepts or of actual weapons. Nuclear weapon design concerns the internal components of a nuclear weapon which are responsible for their explosive output. Because actual nuclear weapon designs are military secrets most drawings are somewhat speculative.
Because actual nuclear weapon designs are military secrets most drawings are somewhat speculative. Nuclear weapon design concerns the internal components of a nuclear weapon which are responsible for their explosive output. They are a mixture of reasonable illustrations of design principles and speculative designs of either highly hypothetical weapon concepts or of actual weapons.
The designs appearing on this page were prepared in gif form by richard brown. Brown comments on this page were revised by carey sublette. Pure fission weapons the simplest and least technically demanding were the first nuclear weapons built and have so far been the only type ever used in an act of war over wartime japan.
There are three existing basic design types. Nuclear weapon designs are physical chemical and engineering arrangements that cause the physics package of a nuclear weapon to detonate.
