17 Oct
2001
17 Oct
'01
4:51 a.m.
There are tricks to getting the critical radius down
to lower values...
Hmmm. Well, like I said, I'm not a weapon designer. I don't even play
one on TV. :)
(does the trick involve Tritium, or is that just a yield enhancer for
implosion types?) For some reason I don't understand and haven't
looked into, it's possible
to get a critical mass as low as 1 kg using plutonium nitrate solution
in a stainless steel implosion sphere. Yield would probably be a few kilotons.
You mean a _liquid_ in an implosion sphere? Wild.
Tritium is a yeild enhancer. Turns your A bomb into
an H bomb.
That's what I figured. I've heard that the Tritium needs to be replaced
on a regular basis due to decay...
g.