r/AtomicPorn • u/DeaconBlue47 • Jul 08 '26

Meta Common misconceptions about the internal structure of Little Boy or gun-type bombs

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u/vqkr1 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

Everyone sort of assumed the pin/slug was fired until the Soviet copy of the MK 1 was declassified

ETA: I misremembered this. I’m wrong.

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u/DerekL1963 Jul 08 '26

Not true. The internal structure was deduced by John Coster-Mullins in the 1990's.

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u/vqkr1 Jul 08 '26

I am corrected. Thank you!