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1994-08-25 - Re: Nuclear Weapons Material

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From: Mikolaj Habryn <dichro@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
To: ecarp@netcom.com
Message Hash: 6ab3387d46ac5dc30bb217dff99a91d66f328edc84006257ac50f1b952be166b
Message ID: <199408250535.NAA05783@lethe.uwa.edu.au>
Reply To: <m0qdXE6-0004EcC@khijol.uucp>
UTC Datetime: 1994-08-25 05:37:59 UTC
Raw Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 22:37:59 PDT

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From: Mikolaj Habryn <dichro@tartarus.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 94 22:37:59 PDT
To: ecarp@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Nuclear Weapons Material
In-Reply-To: <m0qdXE6-0004EcC@khijol.uucp>
Message-ID: <199408250535.NAA05783@lethe.uwa.edu.au>
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> > > 
> > > I don't understand your point.  The earliest devices used a pie shape 
> > > with a wedge cut out.  The actual geometry is rather unimportant to 
> > > getting a fission reaction - but it *is* important if you want to 
> > > maximize your yield.
> > > -- 
> 
> Wrong.  If you will notice, I said "the earliest devices".  They didn't 
> use plutonium for nuclear devices until much later.

	That may be what you had in mind - what you wrote was that
geometry is irrelevant in fusion reactions, which is incorrect.

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*       *       Mikolaj J. Habryn
                dichro@tartarus.uwa.edu.au
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