At a meeting on December 18 the S-1 project was dedicated to development of a uranium bomb.
They came to within an inch of not having enough material for a uranium bomb.
The gun program switched completely over to developing a uranium bomb.
I envision rather a uranium bomb, most likely a gun-type.
Note that it is entirely possible to make uranium bombs with the products of a thorium reactor.
It was assumed that the uranium gun-type bomb could then be adapted from it.
In contrast, the uranium bomb was straightforward if not trivial to design.
But the idea of a uranium bomb chilled him.
A compromise hypothesis, experts said, was that Pakistan had exploded a uranium bomb with a plutonium experiment on the side.
And it is much more efficient than your uranium bombs, Burt.