Holloway's team soon settled on liquid deuterium despite its ingineering challenges, Carson Mark reports, primarily because it would give the cleanest physics:
In the cryogenic desing you had nothing but deuterium - essentially an infinite medium of deuterons. With lithium deuterid there were as many lithium atoms as there were deuterons, but we were interested in the deuteron reaction, D+D. There wasn't prominent reaction of deuterium with lithium. The lithium was inert in that respect. In fact it was diluent. And certainly a complication. And the cryogenic pattern avoided that complication. It introduced some physical complications in construction, in handling, but thouse one knew to deal with. They had nothing to do with any of the thermonuclear behavior...
Every departure from the simplest seemed like something to avoid.
Из воспоминаний Jacob Wechsler:
One key was setting a time scale early in th game. They said, it may be unrealistic but let's set it and not keep saying, Oh, we've got to slip it. Let's target and try to make it go. Thaty required some real good thinking - namely, what is it you're trying to do in this test? Is it going to be weapon? Is it "proof of pronciple"? What's it going to be?
Цитата по Richard Rhodes, "Dark Sun. The making of the hydrogen bomb". Если не читали - очень рекомендую.
>Майк-таки послужил основой для нескольких реальных бомб.
Jacob Wechsler had supervised development of a weaponized version of Mike Jughead - in case the dry bomb failed. It was supposed to be tested at CASTLE. After the Romeo succes, Wechsler reminisces, "Harold said, Got to send a wire to Norris (Bradbury). I said, Sure. He said To kill your Jughead. I said, Yeah? He said, Here's the wire:" Why buy a cow when powred milk is so cheap?". The reasilut of Operation CASTLE, Raimond Schreiber writes, "left me with unpleasant job of negotiating the closeout of a sizable cryogenic hardware contract"
Теперь совсем точно, я надеюсь.
Если уж рассуждать о психологии и политике, как это предлагает Durga то надо брать американскую психологию и америнскую политику. Материалов для этого предостаточно. А не выдумывать "из головы".
>"Ненадобность" - вот слово, которое не приемлют мухинисты. У них ружьё из первого акту обязательно стреляет к третьему, хотя в жизни такой драматичности нет...
Почему же, если ненадобность в их интересах, то приемлют. По моему они не хотят учитывать, что их логика поведения не единственная и не самая разумная. Другие люди могут руководствоваться совсем другими соображениями.
