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The difficulty with "clean fusion bombs" is that bomb makers can always increase the yield of a fusion bomb by making it dirty. Fusion releases neutrons, and th
by SaberTail 2y ago
The difficulty with "clean fusion bombs" is that bomb makers can always increase the yield of a fusion bomb by making it dirty. Fusion releases neutrons, and these neutrons have enough energy to fission the common 238 isotope of uranium, which releases roughly 100 times more energy than than the neutron started with.
- jtriangle 2y agoYes, but if you're getting the desired yield from fusion alone, you don't need to. Remember, most of the world is focused on relatively small nuclear arms, not world ending polymegaton devices