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Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
On Tue, 23 Aug 1994 [email protected] wrote:
> > At the risk of pushing this even further from cryptography, I should
> > say that tritium is used in the "boosting" of *fission* weapons. A
> > mixture of tritium and deuterium is injected into the exploding
> > fission core to increase the "alpha" (neutron multiplication "gain")
> > of the system. The D-T thermonuclear reactions themselves contribute
> > relatively little energy, but the increase in fission efficiency can
> > be dramatic.
>
> Been reading our Tom Clancey, have we? <grin>
I would recommend 'The Secret that Exploded' by Howard Morland
Describes H-Bombs in a language that we can all understand.
Brian
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