[Poohbah]

And just where did this retard get his degree ..... the nuclear batteries are U-238, NOT 235 and not plutonium.

Actually, they ARE plutonium.

But the idea that there's enough oomph there to create a runaway burn a la Teller's "Classical Super" is downright silly. There's a reason that the Classical Super wouldn't work: the device would radiate away the heat of the nuclear blast before it could raise the thermonuclear fuel to the ignition point.

[Centurion2000]

oops .... missed that in the details ..... but Fermi had a bet that the same bomb type would ignite our atmosphere ... and that didn't happen.