From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 14:28:05 +0800
To: "E. ALLEN SMITH" <EALLENSMITH@ocelot.Rutgers.EDU>
Subject: Easy Nuclear Detonator
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At 10:25 PM 2/18/96 EDT, E. ALLEN SMITH wrote:
>	I've been kind of busy recently (the reason I haven't responded to
>the more recent Assasination Politics stuff), but I'm curious what your method
>is for achieving simultaneous explosions.


"Multiple very thin flexible hollow tubes (1 mm ID? teflon?) filled with a
homogenous liquid 
explosive (for example, pure nitromethane), length accurately cut to produce 
the exactly desired delay.  Kept separated from each other by foam spacers 
to avoid inter-fiber detonations. Detonated from a single cap, with an 
intermediary chamber of liquid explosive to stabilize the shock front, the 
detonation wave travels along each tube simultaneously at (presumably) 
identical velocity."

It's a race, designed so that the detonation waves reach their targets (the
foci) at 
the same time.  If the detonation velocity was, say, 5,000 meters per 
second, an accuracy of 0.5 millimeter in length would produce a delay accuracy 
of 100 nanoseconds.

Whatcha think?

Now where did I put that pit...   <G>


Jim Bell
jimbell@pacifier.com

Klaatu Burada Nikto

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