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==Fission Weapons==
==Fission Weapons==
Criticality - subcritical - supercritical - prompt criticality - critcial insertion time - insertion (gun-type) method - spontaneous fission - implosion method
Liquid drop model - superdeformation - hyperdeformation (put these in physics?)
Th233 - U233 - U235 - U238 - Pu249 - Pu240 - transuranics
Enrichment levels - enrichment methods - degradation - downblending
Neutron sources - prompt neutrons - delayed neutrons


==Fusion Weapons and Boosting==
==Fusion Weapons and Boosting==