Posted on 01/29/2013 2:15:42 PM PST by Strategerist
Keep in mind this was probably translated from Japanese, and could be written better; it's NOT saying the next North Korean nuclear test will be an actual warhead on a missile, just that the test could further their efforts towards having a warhead on a missile.
To be clear what is being discussed in the article is not what you think of in terms of a "hydrogen" bomb - it would not be a multi-megaton thermonuclear bomb, but a bomb where a small amount of fusion is used to enhance the efficiency and yield of a traditional fusion bomb. It would allow for further warhead miniaturization.
Is the white house throwing a party?
Yeah...like for an EMP???
edit...”enhance the yield of a traditional fission bomb.”
I don’t know if the White House is throwing a party, but the Missile Defense Agency probably is.
I think I have a better shot at building the Perpetual Motion Machine in my back yard than the NorKorComs have of solving nuclear fusion.
Thank you Hillary for another glaring failure.
Forget about Republicans for a moment, does anybody think John Kennedy or FDR would have tolerated this **** for two seconds??
The tale of what Bill Clinton “sold” to the Chinese keeps growing in the telling.
We didn’t sell the Chinese nuclear bomb designs.
This wouldn’t be the development of a full-scale multi-stage thermonuclear weapon; it’s a slight modification to an implosion fission device (which the NORKs already have) basically putting some fusionable material in the middle of the imploding Pu or HEU to generate more neutrons and improve the fission explosion.
So when i was in Grad school 4 years ago, this mid-level Obama foreign policy functionary came to give a lecture talking about how their policy of "engagement" would be so much better than the obviously stupid Bush policies that failed to stop the DPRK nuke program.
The Clintons transferred all pending US
patent applications to the red Chinese for political cash.
How do you know what was in there? or in the rest?
OK. I’m not into nuclear science, don’t have the brains for it. So, what would be the range of this missile, as far as we know, and what would the impact of the detonation be? As far as we know.
The trick is injection tritium into the hollow pit of a fission device just before detonation. The intense fission reaction is sufficient to start fusion of the tritium and radically increase the yield both from added fusion energy and releasing a lot more neutrons further increasing the fission yield.
Pretty sure without looking that we figured how to do this before we figured out thermonukes.
IIRC, didn't the Chinese they have their man inside Los Alamos stealing the designs for the W88 and such miniaturized devices?
I recall lots of hand waving about what he did or did not steal. Sounded like a smoke screen to me.
Boosted fission bombs were developed well before the staged thermonuclear weapons. Boosted fission bombs were what the Eniwetok tests were about in 1950 or 51.
"The intense fission reaction is sufficient to start fusion of the tritium and radically increase the yield both from added fusion energy and releasing a lot more neutrons further increasing the fission yield."
I believe that this is also the physical basis underlying the practice of the "keg stand" as well.
Panic in Year Zero: Crazy Kick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MBzkGEl0LI
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