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To: ArrogantBustard

Yep.

There is a limit on fission devices, given that you can only pack so much material in a useable form before it goes critical spontaneously.

Ivy King was a fission device, and it yielded 500 KT, the largest we ever tested.


37 posted on 04/07/2008 3:11:42 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

What I want to know is what was in those old wooden school desks that would protect you from the impulse and heat of a nuclear weapon.


49 posted on 04/07/2008 3:38:41 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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