Talk:Silverplate

Thin man?
"The project was initiated in October 1943 when Dr. Norman F. Ramsey, a member of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Group E-7, identified the B-29 Superfortress as the only airplane in the U.S. inventory capable of carrying either type of the proposed weapons shapes: the uranium 235 "gun-type fission weapon" shape and the plutonium implosion weapon shape"


 * But the implosion weapon wasn't begun in earnest until April 1944, and before that it was thought than the Thin Man bomb was likely to be used. It seems unlikely to me that Ramsey would have known to focus on the uranium gun and plutonium implosion in October 1943. Somethings incorrect here, it might be in the original source. It would be interesting to know if the Silverplate people were trying to make it fit the long (18 ft—almost twice as long as Little Boy or Fat Man) Thin Man bomb as well. --98.217.18.109 (talk) 17:09, 4 March 2008 (UTC)


 * Actually the wording was misleading. I eliminated the U-235 reference because it was in fact the Thin Man shape that Silverplate was looking to modify to. However the ovoid shape of the plutonium bomb had already been theorized and the delivery aircraft had to fit the bill. There were only two choices (the other was the B-32), since neither the B-24 nor the B-17 had the carrying capacity, range, and altitude requirements, and the B-36 was still on the drawing board.--Reedmalloy (talk) 10:53, 19 June 2008 (UTC)


 * It would have been the Lancaster - that was considered prior to the B-29 being decided-upon. The Lancaster had a 33ft long bomb bay. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.254.8 (talk) 19:34, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I see no reference provided to back up the extraordinary assertion that the British Lancaster bomber was seriously considered as an alternative to the B-29 Superfortress for the atomic attacks on Japan. See the posting on Greg’s Airplanes and Automobiles YouTube channel: The Lancaster and Atomic Bombs, My Response to Mark Felton, dated 24 Mar 2022. Jfanson (talk) 06:08, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Lead
A one-sentence lead seems awfully short for a 7-section article--could this be expanded to better summarize the contents? -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:33, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Because you demanded it! I've expanded the introduction. Hawkeye7 (talk) 22:33, 31 July 2013 (UTC)

Count of Silverplate aircraft
Both the Enola Gay and Bockscar articles say that there were only 15 Silverplate aircraft, but this article has a much higher number. Should those articles be updated? Ptomblin (talk) 20:05, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

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