Actually ‘conventional’ nuclear weapons these days can include some fusion of that sort. An actual thermonuclear weapon is actually a two-stage device, in which the explosion of the first fusion-fission stage sets off a second stage with even more oomph. Three stage devices have been created and exploded but I guess they don’t really make people any happier than two-stage devices, particularly, if you are a Soviet leader, if the two-stage devices are MIRVed.
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Actually ‘conventional’ nuclear weapons these days can include some fusion of that sort. An actual thermonuclear weapon is actually a two-stage device, in which the explosion of the first fusion-fission stage sets off a second stage with even more oomph. Three stage devices have been created and exploded but I guess they don’t really make people any happier than two-stage devices, particularly, if you are a Soviet leader, if the two-stage devices are MIRVed.
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Happy birthday to
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