It sends out radio frequencies which are bounced back to it. Microchips in the bomb determine how far it still has to fall, and when to detonate. The bombs also have fuses in the front which arm ! the bomb. They are not inserted until the bomb is ready to be launched. Before this bomb was developed, another kind was proposed...
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Uranium-238 could capture a neutron and become Uranium-239. All uranium has 92 protons. U-238 has 146 neutrons, and the added neutron raised the mass to 239. But U-239 is very unstable and it decays to neptunium-239 (93 protons, 146 neutrons), and plutonium-239 (94 protons and 145 neutrons). Plutonium-239 was fissionable, and could be separated from uranium by chemical techniques ( much easier than physical process of separating the different isotopes of 235 and 238 of the same element)...
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