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Optimal Implosion Compression

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1945

George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky11 April 1945

Los Alamos · Science / Physics

Kistiakowsky reports that sub-scale tests have achieved the desired symmetrical compression for the implosion system.

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George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky

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