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Thermonuclear bombs start with the same fission reaction that powers atomic bombs — but the majority of the uranium or plutonium in atomic bombs actually goes unused. In a thermonuclear bomb, an additional step means that more of the bomb's explosive power becomes available. First, an igniting...
for just an instant, on the closed bomb-bay doors. Above it, the bombardier's body made an X as he hung on for dear life. As he scrambled to safety, the atomic bomb broke open the
But wait, what about the bomb you need to pump the laser? Well, Orion is an nuclear-bomb-powered drive, remember? Make the propulsive bombs do double duty. The weapons are called "spurt bombs." Dispensers on the pusher plate eject a flight of the little darlings. The spurt bombs unfurl...
I don’t think so. They’re concerned that a whole new generation is collectively yawning at their stupid doomsday clock, which inches ever-closer to midnight while the real probability of nuclear armageddon seems lower than ever since the invention of the H-bomb. They’re concerned that their...
At upper right, you can see the cluster of the first H-bomb designs (TX-16, EC-17, Mk-17, EC-24, Mk-24) — high yield (hence far to the right), but very heavy (hence very high). Again, a good benchmark for first generation high-yield thermonuclear weapons. What a chart like...
The weapons they employed were the irresistible Psychedelic Ray, the Itching Beam (which turned staid burghers into instant nudists), the dread Diarrhoea Bomb, and the debilitating Tumescent Aerosol Spray. The total human casualties were thirty-six, mostly through exhaustion or heart failure. Artwork...
They also have a branch of elite Mounties who guard the uranium mine, the nuclear bomb unit factories, and nuclear bomb stockpiles. They have absolutely no sense of humor, their weapons have no safeties, and their K-9 corps use wolverines instead of German Shepherds. As a side note, Can...
Now of course, there's not much money in bomb shelters now that the cold war is over, and five or ten years after the near-miss things are largely back to normal, and Cape Dread and their lunar and Mars facilities have basically become a economic bubble and popped. But what that ...
analogous to radiation-induced compression in a thermonuclear device (particularly if the "bomb" includes atamper). Since only a miniscule fraction of the annihilation pions and gammas will be reabsorbed by the reactants themselves, I expect the effective "pressure" they exert to disrupt the mix...