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Fill in the blanks. The logic behind the design of the bombs was to keep several...

Fill in the blanks.

The logic behind the design of the bombs was to keep several pieces of _________ material, ________  their critical mass, separated from each other in the bomb. Then all the pieces would be forced together using an ordinary explosive, combining them into _______ above the critical mass, thus triggering a runaway nuclear chain reaction and an _________.

Word Bank:

Fusionable

Below

Multiple Pieces

Explosion

Fissionable

A single piece

Above

Implosion

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