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To: dr_lew
IIRC, those are actually not fusion enhanced, but are fission enhanced devices which use heavy water or heavy hydrogen or neutron reflectors to improve the neutron cross section.

That's possible, I guess.

As you know, a thermonuclear weapon is extremely difficult to build; India has some of the best scientists in the world, and it's doubtful that India has produced one. Pakistan almost certainly has not. Nobody except the Soviets ever produced a thermonuclear weapon without significant help from either the US or US-Soviet proxies. [UK, FR, China, Israel.] The Sakharov-Ginzburg designs were inferior, but gave megaton+ yields. Eventually, [we think] they went to the Teller-Ulam design, but Sakharov surely understood fusion well enough to have developed it knowing only the basic concept. The Norks don't have a Teller or a Sakharov.

41 posted on 01/05/2016 10:41:03 PM PST by FredZarguna (Deathblow: "Not because of who you are, but because of different reasons altogether.")
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To: FredZarguna

But they have Russian “helpers” I’m afraid.


71 posted on 01/06/2016 3:51:20 AM PST by Shady (We are at war again......this time for our lives...)
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To: FredZarguna

“As you know, a thermonuclear weapon is extremely difficult to build; India has some of the best scientists in the world, and it’s doubtful that India has produced one.”

Dadgummit, I been tryin’ to build my own outa match heads, firecrackers and fat pine knots, guess I better give it up then.


101 posted on 01/06/2016 11:30:19 AM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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