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It would have been nice if this article had some diagrams of the respective bomb designs. I was having trouble trying to piece together where components were an
by zatkin 11y ago
It would have been nice if this article had some diagrams of the respective bomb designs. I was having trouble trying to piece together where components were and had to do a few Google Image searches to follow along.
- arethuza 11y agoThe relevant Wikipedia page has some decent diagrams - from the original Ivy Mike Sausage style cylindrical secondaries through to very modern designs like the W88: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon I can also recommend "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes for more details.
- brandmeyer 11y agohttp://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/ http://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/ has quite a bit of detail, especially about fusion-boosted weapons and Tellar-Ulam weapons.