20 September 1943
Implosion Compression Insight
Von Neumann visits Los Alamos and emphasises the large compression attainable by implosion, strengthening interest in the method.
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Los Alamos in Hungary. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Von Neumann visits Los Alamos and emphasises the large compression attainable by implosion, strengthening interest in the method.
An implosion theory group is established at Los Alamos with Teller as its first head.
Von Neumann provides an important design insight for the slower explosive component used to focus an implosion lens.
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