Talk:Operation Greenhouse

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SkoreKeep (talk) 02:40, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Operation Greenhouse. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20130219220719/http://www.dtra.mil/documents/ntpr/historical/1951%20-%20DNA%206034F%20-%20Operation%20GREENHOUSE%201951.pdf to http://www.dtra.mil/documents/ntpr/historical/1951 - DNA 6034F - Operation GREENHOUSE 1951.pdf

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Confusing statements...
"Shaped like a torus, the George device ... The George design was a 'Classical Super' prototype with a binary triggering device using radiation implosion upon a cylinder."

These two statements seem to be at odds with each other at first glance. One could read the first bit to be describing the device as a whole, but I don't know how you'd focus the x-rays in that case, or it might refer to a toroidal cylinder of D-T, but then I'm still not sure exactly how this would be arranged. Does anyone have more detail? Maury Markowitz (talk) 16:03, 13 February 2021 (UTC)