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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: solved, and difficulties in the production of plutonium, particularly
the inability to process large amounts, often frustrated the
scientists. Nonetheless, by 1944 sufficient progress had been made to
persuade the scientists that their efforts might succeed. A test of
the plutonium implosion device was necessary to determine if it would
work and what its effects would be. In addition, the scientists were
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
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