Actually, plutonium is hard to make a bomb out of – the simple design of the first U235 device (which wasn’t even test-fired before being dropped) simply won’t work with plutonium. That requires very precise geometry and timing, which is not easy to achieve.
Actually, plutonium is hard to make a bomb out of – the simple design of the first U235 device (which wasn’t even test-fired before being dropped) simply won’t work with plutonium. That requires very precise geometry and timing, which is not easy to achieve.