Talk:Variable yield

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Shouldn't it be "Uranium fission tamper" instead of "Uranium fusion tamper"? Jbhood 00:56, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Why? Nuclearweaponarchive.org says it was the fusion stage tamper that was replaced. Because this material surrounding the fusion fuel serves as a pusher/tamper for the fusion stage, shouldn't it be called fusion tamper? It is true that the uranium tamper of the original design was ment to undergo fast fission, but it's still the tamper of the fusion stage. Therefore I propose following wording: "fissionable uranium tamper was replaced with fusion tamper made of lead" or something to that effect. I'm not going to edit it yet. I'm waiting for someone to come up with a convincing argument for why the correct term should be "fission tamper"?130.234.5.136 21:02, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

You are right, I didn´t know what I was doing when I changed fusion to fission. I´ll change it back. Jbhood 13:02, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I am going to delete the comment about some weapons not achiving supercritical mass without boosting. This claim is nonsense. Boosting doesn't kick off until you already get 250-300 tons yield, which you clearly won't get without a supercritical assembly. Georgewilliamherbert 08:11, 23 March 2006 (UTC)