09-13-2020, 09:42 AM | #11 | |
Join Date: Aug 2007
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Re: Going Nuclear (small question)
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Then there's the outer casing. If you want a clean bomb you use lead. If you want more power you use uranium and double the yield of your device. It doesn't even need to be enriched uranium. If you do use enriched uranium (as in the US W88 strategic warhead) you can roughly triple the yield. Placing 2 W88s casing to casing and detonating one of them might well cause sigificant nuclear activity in the second one. You do need to properly arm and detonate the first bomb though. Nobody but you has mentioned setting off nuclear bombs with conventional ones. That's an obvious no. I'm not even sure you can build fusion-only strategic warheads (in a deliverable form and with a higher yield than modern mutli-stage devices as Spaceships assumes).
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