looking for documentation for 1963 minuteman missile computer

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(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Gene Buckle -> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 9:10 AM -> To: classiccmp(a)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. -> -> ->