Fat Boy loading on Tinian

My understanding of the Soviet suitcase design is the Tritium half life is so short that the "Trigger" will fizzle without maintenance/replacement every 2 or 3 years. It would still be a very nasty dirty bomb and maybe have a very small yield (estimated to be less than 1 ton yield, let alone anything in the kiloton yield). But the havoc and mess if set off in a metro area. The long term radiation poisoning might rival one of the Japanese cities. Ivan

Tritium has a 12.8 year half life. Hard to believe they can't engineer one that is reliable for more than just a few years.
 
Half life yes but I would imagine it needs to be at peak performance for the needed function.

Amazing pics from back in the day. Life was pretty different back then.
 

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