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"When we talk about making conventional nuclear weapons, they are difficult to make," he said. "Making a mini-nuke would be difficult but in some respects not as difficult as a full-blown nuclear weapon."
:wtf: :doh: :doh: A Littleboy/Fatman type nuke is as simple as you can get; just miniaturizing it enough to fit on a smaller bomber or missile is a huge undertaking, shrinking it enough to fit in to a 6" artillery shell resulted in a design so inefficient that it used something like 5-10x as much material as a conventional nuke for a 5-100x smaller yield. (Not enough volume for a spherical implosion, so the design was a large pancake of plutonium with pancakes of explosive on both flat sides; it could just barely be compressed enough to trigger a tiny amount of fission before blowing itself apart again. ...
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Del Monte explained that the mini-nuke weapon is activated when the nanoscale laser triggers a small thermonuclear fusion bomb using a tritium-deuterium fuel. Their size makes them difficult to screen, detect and also there's "essentially no fallout" associated with them.
Oh, they're talking about a pure fusion device. Something that's only been the holy grail of nuclear engineering since about 1950, and like fusion power has only been 30 years in the future since it was first proposed. And they're going to do it using a mechanism that currently requires a sportsball field worth of equipment and megajoules (gigajoules???) of input power to an enormous laser system to get a few joules of fusion out. :rolleyes: At best this is clickbait drivel of the most wretched sort. At worst it's the sort of F*** N*** that various political idiots are beating each other to death over. X| X| X| X| X| &nb
