How do plutonium based atom bombs work? What chemical reactions happen that make them explode? Submitted by L0RD_E t3_11kx8rs on March 7, 2023 at 11:51 AM in askscience 21 comments 17
mfb- t1_jb9xmxg wrote on March 7, 2023 at 3:10 PM The general concept is the same. You make a sphere, typically hollow, surrounded by chemical explosives designed to compress the sphere to become critical and add a neutron source that triggers at the time of maximal criticality. Permalink 8
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