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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by zbobet2012 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @01:40AM (#33980722)
You are correct that in a Teller-Ulam design most of the energy can come from fusion, but as a note it's generally a fission-fusion-fission design in "modern" deployments with about 50% of the energy coming from fusion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon

Only very large bombs, such as the Tsar Bomba (97% from fusion) ever where primarily fusion, and those are not in modern arsenals.

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