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To: Tijeras_Slim

Can’t argue with that, however if the fiber reads detonation of the high explosive, there will be negligable x-ray production at that time.


43 posted on 12/22/2013 5:12:14 PM PST by loungitude (The truth hurts.)
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To: loungitude

The time scale at which things occur in a nuke is amazing. Triggering of various data collection systems is calculated very precisely, and it doesn’t always work out perfectly.

I worked in the Nuclear test field in the early 90’s when we were conducting the final tests. There was one fiberoptic instrument that I was aware of (having worked on it a bit), but it was never fielded prior to the end of testing.


46 posted on 12/22/2013 5:54:24 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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