Re:A Hydrogen Bomb by any other name
by zatkin on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @03:14AM
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It would have been nice if this article had some diagrams of the respective bomb designs. I was having trouble trying to piece together where components were and had to do a few Google Image searches to follow along.
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Re:A Hydrogen Bomb by any other name
by brandmeyer on Tuesday January 12, 2016 @09:02AM
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http://www.nuclearweaponarchive.org/ has quite a bit of detail, especially about fusion-boosted weapons and Tellar-Ulam weapons.
The relevant Wikipedia page has some decent diagrams - from the original Ivy Mike Sausage style cylindrical secondaries through to very modern designs like the W88:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon
I can also recommend "Dark Sun" by Richard Rhodes for more details.