I am asking about the strength.
Buck:
Is one stronger, more powerful bomb
than the others?
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Yes, there were much stronger, more powerful bombs than in the late
years at Bikini and Enewetak than any that we had ever used before.
The
strength of the radiation from any given element was the same no matter
what the bomb source was.
Cowan:
Are you saying that those are fission fragments and daughter
products from the fission bomb?
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Yes, of course.
Well, there are fission products resulting from
every bomb that we have tested.
Cowan:
But you are saying that the radiation produced was the same for
fission or fusion explosions?
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For any given radionuclide the radiation coming from that material is
the same no matter what the source of that material
is.
Does that answer
your question?
Cowan:
Not exactly.
I’m looking at the fragments and the daughter
products not being the same.
M_y:
The fragments of, let’s say, cesium-137 coming from a bomb that was
fi~ed over Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Bikini or Enewetak, that cesium-137 is the
same.
As it decays, it decays into the same family of end products or
daughter products, and they have the same energy, they radiate with the
same intensity.
Cowan:
The same products were created in Nagasaki and Hiroshima as was
created at Bikini and Enewetak?
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