by Joseph DeMaio, ©2022 The “Trinity Detonation” of The Manhattan Project, July 16, 1945 (Wikipedia, public domain) (May 20, 2022) — In the jargon of thermonuclear physics, the term “critical mass” means that point at which a specific volume of fissile material – such as uranium-235 or Plutonium – will sustain a nuclear chain reaction. […]
