May 7, 1934, the Palace of Nations in Saint Arthur's Fort, Australasia.
"Your Majesty, after extensive calculations, we have determined the true reason for Moss's failure." Einstein sat stiffly on the sofa inside the palace, reporting to Arthur with a grave expression.
"Oh? What was the reason?" Arthur asked with great interest.
On the day of the nuclear test, Arthur had already received all the test data, including the final estimate of the nuclear explosion's power.
Clearly, the actual explosive power differed far too greatly from the estimate made by the nuclear weapons research team.
Although an atomic bomb with an explosive yield of several thousand tons of TNT equivalent was still the most powerful weapon humanity had ever built, such an outrageous uranium-235 utilization rate meant the weapon itself was unacceptable.
The most urgent matter was determining whether the problem that had caused this result was serious for atomic bomb theory.
If it was not serious, they might only need to change their approach to build an atomic bomb with far greater power.
But if it was extremely serious, then apart from overturning the existing theory of atomic bombs, there would be no other way to improve the utilization rate of Uranium-235.
"According to our calculations, the true reason the Uranium-235 utilization rate was only 1.2% is the gun-type structure used in our atomic bomb design." Einstein took out a document and tried to explain it clearly to Arthur: "
Your Majesty, please look. This is the gun-type atomic bomb structure we adopted. Although it successfully detonated the entire atomic bomb, the initial reaction energy caused most of the Uranium-235 to expand rapidly. Its density fell, preventing it from reaching criticality.
To put it more simply, before most of the Uranium-235 had time to react, it had already been