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Monday, May 3, 2021
CONTEXT: News You Can Use—Pure Fusion: D-T Plasma Ignition by Overdriven Detonation of High Explosives
The hard part about a thermonuclear weapon is acquiring the material for a fission primary and arranging it in a precise configuration (the explosive lens).
— ToughSF (@ToughSf) May 3, 2021
What if you could get rid of that part and ignite fusion with high explosives directly?https://t.co/dvDLsok9jF pic.twitter.com/hn1noHgQaB
Edward Teller always believed this was possible.
In 1989, I wrote a story about abundant neutron generation by impact-driven pure fusion, “Not with a Bang”.
Posted at May 3, 2021 18:24