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Fun fact about that generation of bombs: they kept the fission pit outside of the bomb before dropping it. The crew literally had to handle and insert half the nuclear piece of the bomb in flight.

I think it was also the first weapon to use solid lithium deuteride instead of liquid deuterium.

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