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Explosive Lens Proposal

Great Britain · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1944

James Leslie TuckApril 1944

Los Alamos · Science / Physics

Tuck proposes using explosive lenses to shape detonation waves into the spherical convergence required for implosion.

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James Leslie Tuck

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