A lot of people have said that Jughead seems to be out of time and that the army would not have been testing such a bomb in 1954. To quote Assa2 (for I don’t know his real name) from Digital Spy forum
“Jughead is, by the look of things, a fully weaponised H-Bomb. By that I mean it's in the form of a bomb that could be dropped from plane. The first H-Bomb test in 1952 was a test of the theory of H-Bomb design and was huge. The 'bomb' was a huge building that took up most of a small pacific island. It realy just tested that fusion could be used to create a 'controllable' exposion. The next test was smaller and tested new designs that would lead to small enough components to build a plane deliverable bomb. That test was in 1954 and was a run-away i.e. the yeild was too high and some redesign was required. H-Bombs in a deliverable form were therefore not introduced into the US arsenal until the late 1950's so too late for Jughead to be realistic.
Another problem is that you wouldn't test a 'bomb' by hanging it from a tower. Towers were used to test physics packages (the innards of the bomb). Real bombs would be tested by dropping them from a plane. There's no point in doing what Jughead is depicted as doing.”
If there was a disagreement between Alvar Hanso, Mittelwerk and the DeGroots like in the non-canon Lost fiction maybe that incident happened in 1985. The one noted on the Blast Door Map as ‘AH/MDG incident of 1985’. [I have another idea about their disagreement came about but I’ll save that for another post!] What if Alvar Hanso decided to blow up the island because Mittelwerk had taken control of his company? He used his remaining contacts in the military to send an army team and Jughead. Dharma’s response was to send them all back in time, to say 1954. This could explain why the bomb seemed out of place time wise. Also why it was leaking!
“Jughead is, by the look of things, a fully weaponised H-Bomb. By that I mean it's in the form of a bomb that could be dropped from plane. The first H-Bomb test in 1952 was a test of the theory of H-Bomb design and was huge. The 'bomb' was a huge building that took up most of a small pacific island. It realy just tested that fusion could be used to create a 'controllable' exposion. The next test was smaller and tested new designs that would lead to small enough components to build a plane deliverable bomb. That test was in 1954 and was a run-away i.e. the yeild was too high and some redesign was required. H-Bombs in a deliverable form were therefore not introduced into the US arsenal until the late 1950's so too late for Jughead to be realistic.
Another problem is that you wouldn't test a 'bomb' by hanging it from a tower. Towers were used to test physics packages (the innards of the bomb). Real bombs would be tested by dropping them from a plane. There's no point in doing what Jughead is depicted as doing.”
If there was a disagreement between Alvar Hanso, Mittelwerk and the DeGroots like in the non-canon Lost fiction maybe that incident happened in 1985. The one noted on the Blast Door Map as ‘AH/MDG incident of 1985’. [I have another idea about their disagreement came about but I’ll save that for another post!] What if Alvar Hanso decided to blow up the island because Mittelwerk had taken control of his company? He used his remaining contacts in the military to send an army team and Jughead. Dharma’s response was to send them all back in time, to say 1954. This could explain why the bomb seemed out of place time wise. Also why it was leaking!
