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« Reply #60 on: January 14, 2010, 03:30:24 AM »
Here is a sketch of the very early gun shape being dropped at Wendover, based on the photos in the Coster-Mullen "Atomic Bomb" book.
Presumably the device was to have a massive tamper in the nose and a long gun tube. The length might reflect a higher velocity gun, either to make sure a U235 weapon wouldn't pre-detonate and/or before it was clear that even at high velocity, a Pu weapon could not work due to pre-detonation.

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« Reply #61 on: January 14, 2010, 06:24:36 AM »
Quote from: TsrJoe on January 14, 2010, 02:34:19 AM
http://www.inteligenciaartificial.cl/ciencia/quimica/wuwa.htm

a 'dodgy' site but the reactor images might be of interest ...

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« Reply #62 on: January 27, 2010, 05:30:42 PM »
cool thanks for posting the sketch 'sagallacci' definately a different configuration for sure, sortv like a stripped out 'Little Boy'

meanwhile, Antares 1/48 scale resin German weapons ...
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« Reply #63 on: January 27, 2010, 05:44:20 PM »
Ar.234 with speculative 'uranium bomb'
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« Reply #64 on: January 27, 2010, 05:48:03 PM »
iv made a 1/32 scale 'small uranium bomb' with 'saddle' based on the Georg/Shestakov artwork, just to be different iv a Hasegawa Fw.190F.8 which i'll mount it beneath as opposed to the Me.109 or Ju.87 usually depicted

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« Reply #65 on: February 01, 2010, 12:03:09 AM »
http://www.luftwaffe-experten.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=9819&pid=52917&st=0&#entry52917



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« Reply #66 on: February 08, 2010, 01:29:53 PM »
a generic schematic of a possible 'atom bomb' from a post war German publication ...
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« Reply #67 on: February 09, 2010, 01:42:37 AM »
Interesting fin arrangement on that conceptual drawing. 
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« Reply #68 on: February 09, 2010, 12:11:39 PM »
Quote from: Jeffry Fontaine on February 09, 2010, 01:42:37 AM
Interesting fin arrangement on that conceptual drawing. 

Indeed. Could it actually be a shroud over a parachute pack, i.e. it's designed to blow off alomst immediately after dropping?
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« Reply #69 on: February 11, 2010, 05:19:29 PM »
Looks more like a WAG of the US Mk3/Fatman configuration and the tail is just bad art/simple drag plate.
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« Reply #70 on: February 25, 2010, 09:29:39 AM »
reference to 'enriched uranium' ...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93649575
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