A boosted fission weapon usually refers to a type of nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of fusion fuel to increase the rate, and thus yield, of a fission...

stage is normally a boosted fission weapon as above (except for the earliest thermonuclear weapons, which used a pure fission weapon instead). Its detonation...

implosion-type weapons, boosted fission weapons, and thermonuclear weapons. New nuclear weapon states tend to develop boosted fission and thermonuclear weapons only...

was a "true" thermonuclear weapon of the so-called Teller–Ulam configuration or simply a form of a boosted fission weapon. For a more complete list of...

powers in the design of their weapons. Modern fusion weapons essentially consist of two main components: a nuclear fission primary stage (fueled by 235...

nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and...

date, the largest fission device ever detonated. Orange Herald was a fusion boosted British fission nuclear weapon (called a core-boosted device by the British)...

Grass – nuclear weapon Indigo Hammer – nuclear weapon Orange Herald – fusion-boosted fission weapon. It is believed that the fusion boost didn't work, which...

anti-submarine weapon for Navy use was filled by using the new primary as a boosted fission weapon. Three versions were produced, A, B and C. The first to be produced...

the remaining fission fuel. This is known as a boosted fission weapon. If a fission device designed for boosting is tested without the boost gas, a yield...

no real difference between using it and the atomic bomb or the boosted fission weapon that some opponents of the Super were advocating as an alternative...

first atomic weapons test, America tested the first thermonuclear (hydrogen) bomb. The Soviets responded with Joe 4, a boosted fission weapon, in 1953. Penney...

that the device was more likely to have been a fission bomb such as a boosted fission weapon. Such weapons use hydrogen fusion to produce smaller, lighter...

low or high. The highest-yield version of the W33 may have been a boosted fission weapon. Development of the W33 was authorized by the Army Ordnance Corps...

implosion-type weapon design in 1977–78, with the first cold test conducted in 1983 by Ishfaq Ahmad. The program evolved towards the boosted fission weapon designs...

test of a boosted fission weapon. In this test deuterium-tritium (D-T) gas was injected into the enriched uranium core of a nuclear fission bomb. The...

circuit variation of a DC to DC converter, which increases (boosts) the voltage Boosted fission weapon, a type of nuclear bomb that uses a small amount of fusion...

Mississippi, and New Mexico. Includes all tests with potential for nuclear fission or fusion explosion, including combat use, singleton tests, salvo tests...

fuel either surrounding the fission "trigger" (in a spherical formation) or at the heart of it (similar to a "boosted" weapon) in the hopes that the closer...

included the first boosted fission weapon test ("Item") and a scientific test that proved the feasibility of thermonuclear weapons ("George"). Ivy Mike...

was a "true" thermonuclear weapon of the so-called Teller–Ulam configuration or simply a form of a boosted fission weapon. For a more complete list of...

the first boosted fission weapon test (named Item) and a scientific test (named George) which proved the feasibility of thermonuclear weapons. The Ivy...

contributed by the photofission of the tamper. In a boosted fission weapon or a thermonuclear weapon, the 14.1-megaelectronvolt (2.26 pJ) neutrons produced...

phased out and replaced with pulsed neutron sources, and with boosted fission weapons.[citation needed] The solid-cores were known as the "Christy" design...

British nuclear weapons through boosting with lithium-6 and deuterium, and the use of a natural uranium tamper. Although a boosted fission weapon is not a hydrogen...

was the first test of an actual boosted fission weapon, nearly doubling the normal yield of a similar non-boosted weapon. In this test, deuterium-tritium...

initiated the Manhattan Project the following year to build a weapon using nuclear fission. The project also involved Canada. In August 1945, the atomic...

locus of previous tests. Includes all tests with potential for nuclear fission or fusion explosion, including combat use, singleton tests, salvo tests...

spontaneous neutron emission of the pit material is crucial. For boosted fission weapons, the size of the centrally placed initiator is critical and has...

energy Joe 1 RDS-37 Soviet atomic bomb project Ivy Mike Castle Bravo Boosted fission weapon Notes Rhodes 1995. Goncharov 1996, p. 1040. Richelson 2007, p. 100-101...