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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==

Revision as of 03:52, 19 April 2009

Basic Physics

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

Delivery Systems

Missile Defense

See Also

Books

The following textbooks range from introductory to advanced material, and all require some basic physics and associated mathematical sophistication.

There's pretty much an endless line of popular-audience books about nuclear weapons, especially their early design and the characters behind them (I've got about a dozen biographies of J. Robert Oppenheimer alone). These require no particular scientific or mathematic background. Of them, the best include: