Nuclear weapon design
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English: 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.
Design basics
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Fission bomb assembly methods -
Gun-type bomb -
Gun-type bomb (corrected) -
Implosion-type bomb -
Concept of the critical mass
Gun-type bombs
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Gun-type bomb
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Gun-type bomb (corrected)
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Little Boy diagram (with labels) -
Little Boy diagram (no labels) -
Little Boy diagram (with labels) -
Little Boy diagram (no labels) -
Little Boy diagram
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Implosion-type bombs
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Implosion-type bomb
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Fat Man diagram (with labels) -
Gadget cross-section -
Fat Man diagram -
Fat Man detonation sequence -
Model of the first nuclear bomb (Gadget) -
Implosion weapon cross-section -
Implosion design — outside plating and detonators -
Implosion design — explosive lenses -
Implosion design — pusher exposed -
Implosion design — tamper exposed -
Implosion design — core exposed -
Implosion design — neutron initiator exposed -
Implosion weapon cross-section showing focusing of shock waves -
Animations version of the above -
Exploding-bridgewire detonator patent drawing -
X-Ray images of shock wave propagation through the explosive lenses
Hydrogen bomb/Teller-Ulam design
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Basics of the Teller-Ulam design, in 3D -
Teller-Ulam design cross-section -
Teller-Ulam design cross-section (English labels) -
Teller-Ulam firing sequence (English labels) -
Teller-Ulam firing sequence (alternate) (numeric labels) -
Advanced Teller-Ulam design (W88 warhead)
Photographs of warheads with some design information
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B61 bomb components -
B61 in disassembly -
B83 bomb components (color) -
B83 bomb components (b&w) -
Medium Atomic Demolition Munition (with W54 warhead) -
Model of the first nuclear bomb (Gadget)
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Exterior photograph of Trinity test device (Gadget) -
Exterior photograph of Trinity test device (Gadget) -
Modern high-explosive lenses -
Exploding-bridgewire detonators
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Weapons-grade fissile materials
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A billet of highly-enriched uranium -
A ring with enough weapons-grade plutonium for a modern bomb -
A "button" of plutonium
Historical documents
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Cover page of the Nth Country experiment -
Assembly methods discussed in the Los Alamos Primer -
Bomb diagram drawn by David Greenglass for the Rosenberg trial -
Los Alamos Primer as a PDF -
bunker busters pdf
