ext_51310 ([identity profile] dvandom.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] sigma7 2008-09-23 04:22 am (UTC)

The Fat Man atomic device used external implosion. A shell of explosives to make the plutonium core implode.

Submarines that are catastrophically damaged implode from the pressure of the water outside.


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