Douglas Quebbeman wrote:
> I assume the tritium component is a modular part of the device, as
> it has a rather short half-life (and IIRC, the last production facility
> was closed down).
Sorta. Most "current" devices use something like lithium deutride
which gets converted to tritium by the primary.
Two stage weapons physics is really weird. The first time I read
the phrase "photon gas" my head spun.
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Received on Wed Oct 17 2001 - 12:45:56 BST