gun-type
Adjective
Meaning
gun-type (not comparable)
Of a nuclear bomb: using the gun method of assembly (see gun-type bomb)
Examples
On the other extreme, separation of fissile plutonium-239 from the common impurity plutonium-240, while desirable in that it would allow the creation of gun-type nuclear weapons from plutonium, is generally agreed to be impractical.
In the gun-type fission weapon two subcritical pieces of fuel are rapidly brought together.
Little Boy was a simplification of Thin Man, the previous gun-type fission weapon design.
Overall responsibility for the uranium gun-type weapon was assigned to Captain William S. Parsons 's Ordnance (O) Division.
The gun-type design henceforth had to work with enriched uranium only, and this allowed the Thin Man design to be greatly simplified.
The impracticability of a gun-type bomb using plutonium was agreed at a meeting in Los Alamos on 17 July 1944.