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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: concerned about the possible effects if the conventional explosives in
a nuclear device, particularly the more complex implosion-type device,
failed to trigger the nuclear reaction when detonated over enemy
territory. Not only would the psychological impact of the weapon be
lost, but the enemy might recover large amounts of fissionable
material.
In March 1944, planning began to test-fire a plutonium-fueled
implosion device. At LASL, an organization designated the X-2 Group
was formed within the Explosives Division. Its duties were "to make
preparations for a field test in which blast, earth shock, neutron and
gamma radiation would be studied and complete photographic records
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