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Depends, there is a tritium booster, essentially a little bit of tritium in the bomb improves the neutron economy. That could be called an H-Bomb, if we are not
by yk 11y ago
Depends, there is a tritium booster, essentially a little bit of tritium in the bomb improves the neutron economy. That could be called an H-Bomb, if we are not too pedantic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fission_weapon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boosted_fission_weapon
- arethuza 11y agoI don't think it's being pedantic at all to use the widely accepted terminology - "H-bomb" has implied staging since the 1950s.
- Symmetry 11y agoIf we were being pedantic we'd never use the term h-bomb - we'd be calling them thermonuclear weapons or Teller-Ulam devices if we're being really pedantic. Half the fusion fuel in a thermonuclear weapon starts out as lithium and half the energy comes from fast fusion neutrons fissioning the depleted uranium shell.