Talk:Godiva device

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[edit] Name

Why was it called the Godiva device? I mean the Godiva bit, not the device bit. 86.133.214.216 (talk) 19:19, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

I presume the device was named Lady Godiva because it was a bare mass of fissile material (Uranium 235), with no cladding. Pages 78 to 83 of the referenced la-13638.pdf document cover some of the history, including that of the 1952 Jemima device that preceeded Lady Godiva. -Wikianon (talk) 19:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)