Here's the funny thing: If you had 6kg of U-235 and through it forcefully on the ground it would most likely explode. This almost happened at Las Alamos. All the machinery in nuclear fission bomb essentially just to protect unintentional explosion and make sure explosion is symmetrical and as vigorous as possible when triggered. The triggering mechanism is essentially firing usual explosives around the sphere of fission material.
> If you had 6kg of U-235 and through it forcefully on the ground it would most likely explode.
First, you mean "threw", not "through." And second, this is absolutely not true. To achieve an explosion you have to induce super-criticality with very precise timing. Otherwise the uranium will melt and become sub-critical before it explodes.
> This almost happened at Las Alamos
No, it didn't. You are almost certainly thinking of these incidents:
but those were completely different. It was a plutonium core, not uranium, and it went critical not because it was thrown forcefully to the floor, but because it was inadvertently enclosed in a neutron reflector that caused it to become critical.
>To achieve an explosion you have to induce super-criticality with very precise timing. Otherwise the uranium will melt and become sub-critical before it explodes.
True, but the complexity of the Fat Man plutonium bomb (shown in the link here) belies the simplicity of Little Boy uranium bomb.
