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Re: Nuclear Weapons Material

To: [email protected] (Stephen D. Williams)
Subject: Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 1994 17:10:55 -0400
Cc: [email protected]
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Stephen D. Williams says:
> Fusion bombs I thought used tritium as fuel and needed a Plutonium
> trigger or something.

Sort of.

> They are supposedly set off with some kind of
> inner mirrored ball with high powered lasers.

No. A reality check would tell you that H bombs preceeded the
development of the laser by many years.

H Bombs use a fission reaction to compress and heat the hydrogen or
other fuel until it begins to undergo fusion.

Perry

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