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Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
> 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>
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