uranium bomb did not need to worry about imploding

Tags: atomic weapons, nuclear weapons, plutonium, uranium
Categories: Pseudo-explanations

An example of anthropomorphism in popular science writing:

"Fat Man was the code name for the plutonium bomb's design, which was bulbous because it needed to implode inward to work – something a uranium bomb didn't need to worry about."

Kit Chapman

Chapman, K. (2019). Superheavy. Making and breaking the periodic table. Bloomsbury Sigma.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.