Nuclear Weapons Material

Ed Carp [Sysadmin] khijol!erc at apple.com
Tue Aug 23 19:47:57 PDT 1994


> 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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