looking for documentation for 1963 minuteman missile computer

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblakeman_at_kih.net>
Date: Tue Oct 16 13:48:04 2001

Modern ignitors go easily with the initiators so they don't really need the
cps but they insure a hot spark and no misfires. Old technology was to use
the cap bank to create enough spark to fire the equivelant of a
bullet/cartridge, now the initiators do that, which are easier to start,
like the primer in a bullet/cartridge. Static from a finger on a dry day can
set them off.

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Gene Buckle
-> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 9:10 AM
-> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
-> Subject: RE: looking for documentation for 1963 minuteman missile
-> computer
->
->
-> > At 02:05 PM 10/15/01 -0700, Gene wrote:
-> > >On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Russ Blakeman wrote:
-> > >> It takes a little more than a nav computer to create a
-> problem. All of the
-> > >> arming equipment that is reposnible for the "nuclear
-> consent" is destroyed
-> > >> on-site, even trainer equipment.
-> > >>
-> > >If you've got access to the warhead, all you need is a power supply, a
-> > >capacitor bank and the desire to become component atoms. :)
-> >
-> > A capacitor bank? Is this to ensure homogeneity in a
-> > compression w. standard explosives triggering scheme?
-> >
-> Actually, I was thinking the caps would be required to fire the ignitors
-> from a portable power source. However, since I'm not a nuclear weapons
-> designer or an explosives expert, I'm making a guess on function based
-> upon what I've read and seen on shows that documented the original
-> construction of Fat Man. :)
->
-> g.
->
->
->
Received on Tue Oct 16 2001 - 13:48:04 BST