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The First Trial — nning. Christmas Island would be a theatre for which any kind of nuclear act could be booked. In the event, it would be decided only in the week or two before each test which device would be fired, and in what precise configuration.

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Britain’s Biggest Explosion — ply concluded that it showed a measure of agreement between theoretical predictions and observed results which indicated that Aldermaston was beginning to understand the processes involved. This, after all, was a prime purpose of nuclear weapon tests (see Preface).

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Mission Accomplished — s of the earlier ones. They also depended on larger contingencies — the encouraging prospects of renewed Anglo-American nuclear co-operation, and the pressures of public opinion and worldwide concern about fall-out which would make a test ban or moratorium inevitable sooner rather than later.

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Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700ld be lowered by adding tritium (a heavier and more reactive isotope of hydrogen). The T-D thermonuclear reaction, Bethe said, would release nearly five times as much energy as the D-D reaction. But tritium was very difficult and extremely costly to manufacture. This idea was not followed up immediately.

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Aldermaston and the Weaponeers respective groups. Cockcroft’s group at Harwell would still provide research assistance to Penney’s group, and Hinton’s factories would go on producing the fissile and other special materials for it. But the main weapons task would fall on Aldermaston. and Penney.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-05333-0 for its security an effective deterrent was needed. The Soviet Union soon had an atomic capability, as demonstrated by its August 1949 test, and the presence of American bomber bases here made Britain especially vulnerable.

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