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21:5821:58, 6 November 2024 diff hist +204 Nuclear weapon design →Arbitrarily large multi-staged devices: clarify a few things here. I will note as I look at it that none of the cited sources, that I can see, suggest that Teller proposed a 1 Gt bomb in 1995...

21:2521:25, 8 October 2024 diff hist +18 m Demon core →Manufacturing and early history: clarify all three parts are Pu
21:2321:23, 8 October 2024 diff hist −47 m Demon core →Manufacturing and early history: more complicated than that to assume his reasoning here
20:1120:11, 8 October 2024 diff hist +31 Fat Man 6.2 is the more common literature value, as it is the confirmed mass of the Demon Core

18:2218:22, 21 September 2024 diff hist +2 m Nukemap fix date
18:2118:21, 21 September 2024 diff hist +252 Nukemap add info on NUKEMAP3D
18:1818:18, 21 September 2024 diff hist −10 Nukemap Undid revision 1246719109 by Bigman2794 (talk) it is definitely not, and has never been, Nuke-Map. There has never been a hyphen. Tag: Undo

18:2918:29, 18 September 2024 diff hist 0 m 1961 Goldsboro B-52 crash →Weapon No. 2: Serial No. 359943 (free-fall): they use the spelling "fuze" in the document
18:2718:27, 18 September 2024 diff hist +119 m Little Boy →Counter-intuitive design: tweak numbers a little to be more useful
15:5015:50, 18 September 2024 diff hist −59 Nuclear close calls an image that is nothing but text is not at all useful
13:5513:55, 18 September 2024 diff hist +27 m Critical mass →Critical mass of a bare sphere: clarify bare-sphere
13:5513:55, 18 September 2024 diff hist +646 Critical mass →Critical mass of a bare sphere: add citation, real numbers, example of effect of reflection as well
13:5013:50, 18 September 2024 diff hist +1,343 Little Boy →Counter-intuitive design: reword this because it is confusing and makes it sound like the projectile was a critical mass prior to assembly — add a footnote giving some example numbers
13:3013:30, 18 September 2024 diff hist +45 Little Boy →Conventional weapon equivalent: clarify that the conventional bombs are spread evenly (not a point explosion like an atomic bomb)
13:2913:29, 18 September 2024 diff hist +1,143 Little Boy →Conventional weapon equivalent: add a little bit of discussion of weapon scaling, because it is necessary knowledge to put these yield ranges into context
13:0613:06, 18 September 2024 diff hist −35 m Little Boy →Conventional weapon equivalent: Operation Meetinghouse is not really relevant here

17:0517:05, 11 September 2024 diff hist +168 Manhattan Project →Preparations: specific wording of strike order is significant — restore a compacted form.
01:1301:13, 11 September 2024 diff hist +179 Calutron →Postwar years: coils photo current