| 11. | To do that, the usual trick is to use a regular fission bomb as a trigger.
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| 12. | A fission bomb would be an example for the, ehm, " application " of this principle.
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| 13. | This idea of a layered fission-fusion-fission bomb led Sakharov to call it the sloika, or layer cake.
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| 14. | Thermonuclear bombs work by using the energy of a fission bomb to compress and heat fusion fuel.
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| 15. | Capelli, Hale and surviving SRPA forces protect the fission bomb as it is loaded onto a shuttle.
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| 16. | Even the first fission bombs were thousands of times more explosive than a comparable mass of chemical explosive.
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| 17. | So it begs the question, what is preventing fission bombs from also being very small in explosive yield?
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| 18. | Viable fission bomb designs are, arguably, within the capabilities of many, being relatively simple from an engineering viewpoint.
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| 19. | The radioactive material would not be useful for a fission bomb, but could be used in a dirty bomb.
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| 20. | :See atomic bomb, then fission bomb and thermonuclear bomb ( a hydrogen fusion bomb being the most common type ).
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