Posted on 08/22/2020 3:35:03 PM PDT by texas booster
One that gets a small proportion of its energy from fission. Tsar Bomba was about 97% fusion, and it was exploded at altitude, so it produced very little fallout.
The full-yield 100Mt version would have been extremely dirty -- the additional 50Mt would have been entirely from fission.
No. See my post above. The 100Mt “upgrade” would have been very, very dirty because of the additional 50Mt of fission products. It also would have killed the bomber crew, who were lucky to survive as it was.
Thank you for the clarification. :)
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