17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
11:17 p.m.
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