Quote (DCSS @ Apr 23 2017 09:54am)
Because the force of the explosion blew away the rest of the material before it could participate in the chain reaction? It's not something that can be overcome it's just a fact of life with fission bombs; most of it is going to waste.
anyway there was [URL=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)[/URL] before we bombed japan, ofc it wasn't over a populated city you don't need to see what this explosion can do to a populated city to know what it would do to one after witnessing it. That's like saying no-one knows what this gun will do if you aim it at someone's head and pull the trigger because we've only ever see it hit practice targets!
Wow they tested them first really?
They were brand new technology, which had never been detonated in combat, a complete experiment.
Using your analogy of a gun, shooting them at paper targets does not at all prepare you for what it's like shooting a human in the head. The very first time a human was shot with a bullet would have been just as experimental...
I'm sure they they knew the blast was going to be large but how exactly it was going to affect people at extended distances and with the fall out afterwards was a pretty grey area.