Going Nuclear (small question)

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by FeiLin

perhaps an nuclear arsenal storage facility could be turned into improvised bombs,

I can't say whether or not the neutrons from one bomb might set off another bomb is they were touching outer casing to outer casing. It's probablyt an extremely technical (and specialized) question but it is somehting like what happens in a modern multi-stage nuclear device (though both nuclear cores are inside the same casing then).

Spaceships hypothetical fusion-only devices are even harder to say anything about as you need temperature and pressure rather than neutrons to set those off. Making large fusion-only nuclear devices explode might be very difficult.