Talk:Mark 4 nuclear bomb

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In-flight insertion

In the Travis AFB article at [1], it is mentioned that the conventional explosives in one of these Mark 4's exploded when the plane carrying the bomb crashed. "The plutonium pit was transported on another plane", the article says. Was this due to the IFI feature, and is it possible this prevented a nuclear explosion? 169.237.10.220 (talk)

I just picked up a book titled Broken Arrow #1 published in Canada where a B-36 carrying a Mark IV crashed. The Mark IV minus the core/pit was dropped and exploded before the plane crashed in North British Columbia. The books mentions 3 core/pit options, the important thing the book mentions which this wikipedia pages lacks the the lack of mention on core levitation as a means in increasing yield. This was probably known only after Chuck passed away. The specific tests of these allow cores and yields were given. And IFI was mentioned. 162.234.1.91 (talk) 05:06, 3 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, no. Chuck Hanson is all over levitation in his Secret History. It needs to be written in. SkoreKeep (talk) 03:00, 24 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Batteries

I gather that the batteries and capacitor firing circuits were redsigned to extend the weapon shelf life. This does not seem to be mentioned in the article.90.205.123.105 (talk) 15:33, 30 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]