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Aktungbby · 08-12-14, 03:43 PM

INDEED! especially in view of today's anniversary of the first Russian Hydrogen test: the first Soviet test of a hydrogen bomb, took place on August 12, 1953 and was nicknamed Joe 4 by the Americans. It used a layer-cake design of fission and fusion fuels (uranium 235 and lithium-6 deuteride) and produced a yield of 400 kilotons, mostly from neutron-initiated fission rather than fusion. Perhaps not a 'true' hydrogen bomb... but 400 kilotons TNT...

I wasn't picky at age 2!

08-12-14, 03:43 PM	#47
Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 30,151 Downloads: 24 Uploads: 0	INDEED! especially in view of today's anniversary of the first Russian Hydrogen test: the first Soviet test of a hydrogen bomb, took place on August 12, 1953 and was nicknamed Joe 4 by the Americans. It used a layer-cake design of fission and fusion fuels (uranium 235 and lithium-6 deuteride) and produced a yield of 400 kilotons, mostly from neutron-initiated fission rather than fusion. Perhaps not a 'true' hydrogen bomb... but 400 kilotons TNT... I wasn't picky at age 2! __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness?!!