Il tasso di conversione della materia a energia esercitato dalla fissione nucleare è di 450 grammi (1 libbra) di plutonio per 12 kilotoni di energia. La potenza di 23-kiloton dell'ordigno Baker indica che quasi 900 grammi di plutonio-239 divennero prodotti di fissione. Glasstone 1967, p. 481. Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on Atomic Energy, 3ª ed., Huntington, New York, Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, Inc., 1979 [1967], ISBN978-0-88275-898-5.
Un evento di fissione del plutonio produce, all'incirca, 2,9 neutroni, la maggior parte consumati in ulteriori fissioni, fino a che la fissione si ferma e i neutroni non catturati sfuggono. Glasstone 1967, p. 486. Samuel Glasstone, Sourcebook on Atomic Energy, 3ª ed., Huntington, New York, Robert E. Krieger Publishing Company, Inc., 1979 [1967], ISBN978-0-88275-898-5.
The height-of-burst for the first nuclear explosion Trinity, in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, was 100 feet; the device was atop a tower. It made a crater 6 feet deep and 500 feet wide, and there was some local fallout, Hansen 1995, p. 154, vol. 8, tavola A-1. and Glasstone e Dolan 1977, pp. 409, 622. To be a true air burst with no local fallout, the Trinity height-of-burst needed to be 580 feet, Fletcher 1977. However, the test was conducted in secret, and the world at large learned nothing about radioactive fallout at the time. Chuck Hansen, The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development since 1945, Sunnyvale, California, Chucklea Productions, 1995. Samuel Glasstone e Philip Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3ª ed., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1977 O-213-794, 1977. URL consultato il 16 dicembre 2009 (archiviato dall'url originale il 21 agosto 2009). E. Royce Fletcher, Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer, in Samuel Glasstone e Philip Dolan (a cura di), The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3ª ed., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1977 O-213-794, 1977. URL consultato il 16 dicembre 2009.
Cfr. Fletcher 1977, per una spiegazione in inglese dell'area letale a 5 psi. E. Royce Fletcher, Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer, in Samuel Glasstone e Philip Dolan (a cura di), The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3ª ed., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1977 O-213-794, 1977. URL consultato il 16 dicembre 2009.
Fletcher 1977. E. Royce Fletcher, Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer, in Samuel Glasstone e Philip Dolan (a cura di), The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3ª ed., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1977 O-213-794, 1977. URL consultato il 16 dicembre 2009.
Daly 1986. Note: the bomb yields are often reported as 21 kilotons, but the figure of 23 kilotons is used consistently throughout this article. (EN) Thomas N. Daly, Crossroads at Bikini, in Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, vol. 112, n. 7, Annapolis, Maryland, luglio 1986, pp. 65–74, ISSN 0041-798X (WC · ACNP).
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The height-of-burst for the first nuclear explosion Trinity, in New Mexico on July 16, 1945, was 100 feet; the device was atop a tower. It made a crater 6 feet deep and 500 feet wide, and there was some local fallout, Hansen 1995, p. 154, vol. 8, tavola A-1. and Glasstone e Dolan 1977, pp. 409, 622. To be a true air burst with no local fallout, the Trinity height-of-burst needed to be 580 feet, Fletcher 1977. However, the test was conducted in secret, and the world at large learned nothing about radioactive fallout at the time. Chuck Hansen, The Swords of Armageddon: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Development since 1945, Sunnyvale, California, Chucklea Productions, 1995. Samuel Glasstone e Philip Dolan, The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3ª ed., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1977 O-213-794, 1977. URL consultato il 16 dicembre 2009 (archiviato dall'url originale il 21 agosto 2009). E. Royce Fletcher, Nuclear Bomb Effects Computer, in Samuel Glasstone e Philip Dolan (a cura di), The Effects of Nuclear Weapons, 3ª ed., U.S. Government Printing Office: 1977 O-213-794, 1977. URL consultato il 16 dicembre 2009.
Daly 1986. Note: the bomb yields are often reported as 21 kilotons, but the figure of 23 kilotons is used consistently throughout this article. (EN) Thomas N. Daly, Crossroads at Bikini, in Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, vol. 112, n. 7, Annapolis, Maryland, luglio 1986, pp. 65–74, ISSN 0041-798X (WC · ACNP).
