On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Vorl Bek <[email protected]> wrote:

> All I know is that the magazine that published the 'secret' of the
> h-bomb said it was radiation pressure from the a-bomb trigger that
> compressed the fuel for the h-bomb.

Or it could simply be tamper ablation as this fine article puts forth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller%E2%80%93Ulam_design

Notice it does not work without the proper hohlraum.  :-)


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