Talk:Silverplate

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"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)