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| Keywords: Implosion nuclear weapon design - shock waves.svg Schematic cross-section of an implosion nuclear weapon design showing the basic principle of the need to use high explosive lensing in order to focus the detonation waves initially from the detonators in red into a symmetrical spherical wave which compresses the core Based on the diagram used by Richard Rhodes in Making of the Atomic Bomb as well as another graphic which was floating around the internet on http //www hcc mnscu edu/programs/dept/chem/abomb/page_id_12277 html this page which had the idea of putting them all around in a circle fairly obvious but I hadn't seen it done that way previously Drawn by User Fastfission in Inkscape Fastfission If you want to credit someone credit Wikimedia Commons Otherwise don't credit anyone that's fine by me --Fastfission 15 13 14 April 2008 UTC Implosion bomb schemas | ||||
