On Tue, 23 Aug 1994 khijol!erc@apple.com 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linux - the choice of a GNU generation | finger blane@free.org "A little rebellion now and then is a good | for PGP key thing" - Thomas Jefferson | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------