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  • Thumbnail for Thermonuclear weapon
    A thermonuclear weapon, fusion weapon or hydrogen bomb (H bomb) is a second-generation nuclear weapon design. Its greater sophistication affords it vastly...
    99 KB (11,605 words) - 11:39, 7 November 2024
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    Nuclear weapon (redirect from Fusion Bomb)
    fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion. Both bomb types release large...
    116 KB (13,234 words) - 03:27, 11 December 2024
  • A pure fusion weapon is a hypothetical hydrogen bomb design that does not need a fission "primary" explosive to ignite the fusion of deuterium and tritium...
    8 KB (993 words) - 01:53, 20 June 2024
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    majority of the yield comes from fusion, was the 1952 Ivy Mike test of a liquid deuterium-fusing device. While fusion bomb detonations were loosely considered...
    98 KB (10,477 words) - 03:47, 11 December 2024
  • reason, these weapons are technically known as fission-fusion-fission designs. In a neutron bomb, the casing material is selected either to be transparent...
    63 KB (6,667 words) - 12:55, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Boosted fission weapon
    nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of fusion fuel to increase the rate, and thus yield, of a fission reaction. The neutrons released by the fusion reactions...
    13 KB (1,777 words) - 17:03, 2 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cold fusion
    take place naturally within stars and artificially in hydrogen bombs and prototype fusion reactors under immense pressure and at temperatures of millions...
    144 KB (15,924 words) - 05:34, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soviet atomic bomb project
    single-stage fusion bomb and make a two-stage fusion bomb as their main effort. Unlike the Soviet Union, the analog RDS-7 advanced fission bomb was not further...
    70 KB (7,553 words) - 03:35, 26 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bomb
    Look up bomb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an...
    31 KB (3,710 words) - 23:34, 30 November 2024
  • them to be used to compress the fusion fuel of a fusion bomb. If this turns out to be the case, it might allow a fusion bomb to be constructed with no fissile...
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  • Thumbnail for Nuclear weapon design
    fission weapons were called atomic bombs or A-bombs and weapons involving fusion were called hydrogen bombs or H-bombs. Practitioners of nuclear policy...
    124 KB (16,306 words) - 18:02, 6 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Inertial confinement fusion
    Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a fusion energy process that initiates nuclear fusion reactions by compressing and heating targets filled with fuel...
    69 KB (8,070 words) - 07:46, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of nuclear weapons
    their own atomic bomb project, and not long after, both countries were developing even more powerful fusion weapons known as hydrogen bombs. Britain and France...
    109 KB (13,620 words) - 06:26, 4 December 2024
  • yield fusion bomb while the remaining four were fission bombs. One fusion and two fission bombs were detonated on 11 May 1998 and two more fission bombs were...
    43 KB (4,214 words) - 09:09, 13 December 2024
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    Castle Bravo (redirect from Bravo bomb)
    Bravo was the first test by the United States of a practical deliverable fusion bomb, even though the TX-21 as proof-tested in the Bravo event was not weaponized...
    74 KB (9,000 words) - 18:54, 13 December 2024
  • This timeline of nuclear fusion is an incomplete chronological summary of significant events in the study and use of nuclear fusion. 1920 Based on F.W. Aston's...
    62 KB (7,303 words) - 02:29, 14 December 2024
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    thermonuclear bombs. An "Alarm Clock" device is a "dry" fusion bomb, using lithium deuteride fuel for the fusion stage of a "staged" fusion bomb, unlike the...
    4 KB (371 words) - 22:44, 21 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Project Orion (nuclear propulsion)
    to 6,000 seconds according to the Air Force plan, with a later 1968 fusion bomb proposal by Dyson potentially increasing this to more than 75,000 Isp...
    58 KB (7,090 words) - 14:14, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fusion power
    Fusion power is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from nuclear fusion reactions. In a fusion process, two...
    203 KB (21,875 words) - 20:44, 2 December 2024
  • electromagnetic radiation. The major use for this technology is in fusion bombs and inertial confinement fusion research. Radiation implosion was first developed by...
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