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The convention Teller design for a thermonuclear warhead works this way :
First the yellow explosive lenses around the core implodes the plutonium into critical mass. The resulting explosion compresses and heats up the secondary stage consisting of FOGBANK, the uranium tamper (which can be replaced with lead to make it less radioactive), the fusion fuel (usually deuterium) and the fission sparkplug at the center of the fusion fuel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design
A three stage nuclear weapon is possible by adding another casket of the same behind the secondary stage. Both would be immersed in FOGBANK, a type of gel the US (for a brief period) lost information about how to manufacture it. This was also the design for the Soviet Tsar Bomba with the yield of 50 MT.
So in my novel, there exists a doomsday weapon which used can destroy all life on the planet. It consists of a true fourth stage where the three stage nuclear warheads itself act as explosive lenses for a much larger larger fission and fusion core. It would probably take a few thousand of them, all of them arranged in shaped charges configuration around the core to compress it.
The core itself would consists of crust of fissile material, uranium235, perhaps only a thin one because of the availability of the material. Next inside would be thousands/millions of tons of Deuterium and a small quantity of tritium. Inside this fusion core would be a smaller ball of Plutonium239 to act as the sparkplug.
Again this core would be immersed in a vat of FOGBANK, to act as the radiation reflector.
How many MT of explosive yield would that be? Lets say we use ten thousand tons of deuterium as the fourth stage, what would the yield be?
Would this destroy the planet? Perhaps punch a hole through the Earth's crust, causing a 11 or 12 magnitude earthquake?
First the yellow explosive lenses around the core implodes the plutonium into critical mass. The resulting explosion compresses and heats up the secondary stage consisting of FOGBANK, the uranium tamper (which can be replaced with lead to make it less radioactive), the fusion fuel (usually deuterium) and the fission sparkplug at the center of the fusion fuel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapon_design
A three stage nuclear weapon is possible by adding another casket of the same behind the secondary stage. Both would be immersed in FOGBANK, a type of gel the US (for a brief period) lost information about how to manufacture it. This was also the design for the Soviet Tsar Bomba with the yield of 50 MT.
So in my novel, there exists a doomsday weapon which used can destroy all life on the planet. It consists of a true fourth stage where the three stage nuclear warheads itself act as explosive lenses for a much larger larger fission and fusion core. It would probably take a few thousand of them, all of them arranged in shaped charges configuration around the core to compress it.
The core itself would consists of crust of fissile material, uranium235, perhaps only a thin one because of the availability of the material. Next inside would be thousands/millions of tons of Deuterium and a small quantity of tritium. Inside this fusion core would be a smaller ball of Plutonium239 to act as the sparkplug.
Again this core would be immersed in a vat of FOGBANK, to act as the radiation reflector.
How many MT of explosive yield would that be? Lets say we use ten thousand tons of deuterium as the fourth stage, what would the yield be?
Would this destroy the planet? Perhaps punch a hole through the Earth's crust, causing a 11 or 12 magnitude earthquake?
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