Wikileaks Releases Early Atomic Bomb Diagram

An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks has released a diagram of the first atomic weapon, as used in the Trinity test and subsequently exploded over the Japanese city of Nagasaki, together with an extremely interesting scientific analysis. Wikileaks has not been able to fault the document or find reference to it elsewhere. Given the high quality of other Wikileaks submissions, the document may be what it purports to be, or it may be a sophisticated intelligence agency fraud, designed to mislead the atomic weapons development programs of countries like Iran. The neutron initiator is particularly novel. 'When polonium is crushed onto beryllium by explosion, reaction occurs between polonium alpha emissions and beryllium leading to Carbon-12 & 1 neutron. This, in practice, would lead to a predictable neutron flux, sufficient to set off device.'"

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Re:Perhaps I'm just not clever enough....

[john82]

Neither Iran nor North Korea have waged wars of aggression in the past 50 years.

25 Jun 50 - North Korean People's Army invades South Korea - UN calls for an end of aggression

Thank goodness we're only talking about the last 50 years. Guess the DPRK caught a break on that one. 'Course if you'd said 60 years, then we'd have a real problem.

Oh, and lest we forget:
1980 - Beginning of Iran/Iraq War. Whether or not Iran started that one depends on whom you ask.

Amazing how every country aside from the US is just f*ing perfect since the dawn of recorded history.