RaLa Experiment
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series of tests during and after the Manhattan Project designed to study the behavior of converging shock waves to achieve the spherical implosion necessary for compression of the plutonium pit of the nuclear weapon
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- start time
- 1944-09-00
- end time
- 1962-03-00
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