17 Oct
2001
17 Oct
'01
5:45 a.m.
Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
I assume the tritium component is a modular part of
the device, as
it has a rather short half-life (and IIRC, the last production facility
was closed down).
Sorta. Most "current" devices use something like lithium deutride
which gets converted to tritium by the primary.
Two stage weapons physics is really weird. The first time I read
the phrase "photon gas" my head spun.
-ck
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