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To: Tallguy; Bobalu

Although no country is currently known to deploy them in an offensive manner, all thermonuclear dial-a-yield warheads that have about 10 kiloton and lower as one dial option, with a considerable fraction of that yield derived from fusion reactions, can be considered able to be neutron bombs in use, if not in name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb


14 posted on 09/07/2017 4:29:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I had not thought of that, but I’m sure you are correct.

I am not a nuclear munitions expert but I always assumed they did dial a yield by choosing how much tritium/deuterium to release just before the fission stage is fired.

What they need to happen is a short but energetic burst of neutrons...I’m sure that can’t be too hard to engineer.


19 posted on 09/07/2017 5:08:05 PM PDT by Bobalu (Don't give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to be freeloaders.)
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