Nuclear Weapons Material

[uSuRa]

khijol!erc at apple.com (Ed Carp [Sysadmin]) writes:

:> In a fusion, or H Bomb, the tritium (which is just hydrogen with an
:> extra two neutrons) is that which produces the boom -- the main fuel,
:> as it were. Its a "neutron source" only in the weakest possible sense
:> -- the same way dynamite might be considered to need nitroglycerine as
:> a "neutron source". (I'm not sure that people outside of the bomb
:> building industry really know *for sure* what the geometries used in
:> the atomic weapon that sets off the fusion reaction.)
: 
: I don't understand your point.  The earliest devices used a pie shape 
: with a wedge cut out.  The actual geometry is rather unimportant to 
: getting a fission reaction - but it *is* important if you want to 
: maximize your yield.


One doesnot need to detonate the Uranium/Plutonium one can poison the
watersuplies and make havoc with The Simple Bear Necessities of life.



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Alex de Joode                                 <usura at vox.hacktic.nl>