Oh really? That’s neat, I remember going into my nuclear weapons classes with the idea that thermonuclear bombs used fusion as their main energy source, and then quickly learning otherwise so that lesson stuck with me, from what I understood, while fusion is more energy dense, it’s way easier to pack a bunch of fissile material together than it is to get a bunch of fusion material, and to increase yield they just made bigger cores or warheads with more cores, how did they manage it with Tsar Bomba?
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Oh really? That’s neat, I remember going into my nuclear weapons classes with the idea that thermonuclear bombs used fusion as their main energy source, and then quickly learning otherwise so that lesson stuck with me, from what I understood, while fusion is more energy dense, it’s way easier to pack a bunch of fissile material together than it is to get a bunch of fusion material, and to increase yield they just made bigger cores or warheads with more cores, how did they manage it with Tsar Bomba?