Nuclear Weapons Material
Mikolaj Habryn
dichro at tartarus.uwa.edu.au
Wed Aug 24 22:37:59 PDT 1994
> > >
> > > 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.
> > > --
>
> Wrong. If you will notice, I said "the earliest devices". They didn't
> use plutonium for nuclear devices until much later.
That may be what you had in mind - what you wrote was that
geometry is irrelevant in fusion reactions, which is incorrect.
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