The exploding-bridgewire detonator (EBW, also known as exploding wire detonator) is a type of detonator used to initiate the detonation reaction in explosive...

velocity flyer plate that impacts the HE (laser flyer). Exploding-bridgewire detonator – Detonator fired by electric current Explosive booster – Sensitive...

over the earlier exploding-bridgewire detonator. Instead of directly coupling the shock wave from the exploding wire (as the bridgewire does), the expanding...

added free neutrons to initiate a fission chain reaction.   An exploding-bridgewire detonator simultaneously starts a detonation wave in each of the 32 tapered...

current through the bridgewire, it gets rapidly vaporized, causing a small explosion. This is exploited in exploding-bridgewire detonators (EBWs), used for...

on the design of explosive lenses, and the development of exploding-bridgewire detonators. As a member of Project Alberta, he observed the Trinity nuclear...

a detonator, light source, and for the production of nanoparticles. EWM has found its most common use as a detonator, named the exploding-bridgewire detonator...

was most importantly used in exploding-bridgewire detonators for the atomic bombs. These exploding-bridgewire detonators gave more precise detonation...

wedges are fitted together to form a spherical device. The exploding-bridgewire detonator at the far left triggers a semi-spherical detonation wave through...

similar to a small-scale arc flash, is the foundation of exploding-bridgewire detonators. Electric arcs are used in arcjet, a form of electric propulsion...

fasteners are triggered using exploding bridgewire detonators, which were themselves later succeeded by slapper detonators.[citation needed] Classical blasting...

the film detailing the July 20 plot. Blasting cap Exploding-bridgewire detonator Slapper detonator Primacord Pencil bomb Macrae, Stuart (1971). Winston...

(reservoir) are used as energy sources for the exploding-bridgewire detonators or slapper detonators in nuclear weapons and other specialty weapons....

and safe electrical detonators, of which there were two for each lens for reliability. They used exploding-bridgewire detonators, a new invention developed...

Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, where he co-invented the exploding-bridgewire detonator. After the war, Johnston completed his Ph.D. thesis in 1950...

arc. Laser- and arc-heating are used in laser detonators, exploding-bridgewire detonators, and exploding foil initiators, where a shock wave and then detonation...

around the pit. The explosives were detonated by multiple exploding-bridgewire detonators. It is estimated that only about 20% of the plutonium underwent...

(reservoirs) are used as energy sources for the exploding-bridgewire detonators or slapper detonators in nuclear weapons and other specialty weapons....

Laboratory had encountered problems with the supply of the exploding bridgewire detonators required for this, Lauritsen found manufacturers in the Los...

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detonations of the lenses, the Americans had developed the exploding-bridgewire detonator; this had to be duplicated. Ernest Mott and Cecil Bean developed...

electrical detonators, of which there were two for each lens for reliability. It was therefore decided to use exploding-bridgewire detonators, a new invention...

is named Groves' deputy. January 7: First RaLa test using exploding-bridgewire detonators. January 20: First stages of K-25 are charged with uranium...

Much better results were obtained after February 1945, when exploding-bridgewire detonators, developed by Luis Alvarez's G-7 group, became available. As...

the required altitude. The mechanical group dealt with the exploding-bridgewire detonators and the explosive lenses. The nuclear group moved to Los Alamos...

Kistiakowsky on the development of the high explosives and exploding-bridgewire detonators required by atomic bombs. After the war, Bradner took a position...

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devices. They are best known for their use in igniting exploding-bridgewire and slapper detonators in nuclear weapons, their original application, either...