Talk:Boosted fission weapon

message: I have rewritten most of it. Positive criticism welcome. Man with two legs 22:43, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: 1. This article has been rated Start-Class and has a warning about lack of sources.
2. The bulk of this information has been incorporated into Nuclear weapon design where the reader can see it in a useful broader context.
3. Instead of fixing it and bringing it up to acceptable quality, should it be simply eliminated? 
HowardMorland (talk) 12:28, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Questioning the need for this article

message: There is a source and some usable content at Tritium#Boosting that could be moved or copied here. The source by Hisham Zerriffi says "the estimated quantity needed is 4 grams per warhead." -- Petri Krohn (talk) 13:52, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  4 grams per warhead needed? 

message: This article is not about multi-stage weapons, and yet it has a photo of one being tested (Ivy Mike). 180.200.183.94 (talk) 11:19, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  That photo 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: There is no link to a German article, and I do not know how to edit links,
so maybe somebody can help?
Deutsch ---- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernwaffentechnik#Geboostete_Spaltbomben
The German article is organized in a different manner.
Boosted weapons is a section of "nuclear weapon technology".
The link I'm giving is to the appropriate section. 
76.254.31.171 (talk) 06:33, 17 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to German Wikipedia Article 

message: I believe this is the technique used in the Tom Clancy book, The Sum Of All Fears.  In the book, they discuss recovering a plutonium ingot from a Mark 12 bomb "lost" in the Yom Kippur war.  The bulk of the story is about a former Soviet nuclear scientist and his protege that use metallurgical methods to reshape the ingot to produce a high yield weapon for some terrorists.  At one point, they obtain some boosting fuel (it's been a while, could have been Lithium) that adds significant neutrons in order to make the explosion go from a 10Kt yield to a 400Kt yield.  I read the Sum Of All Fears Wikipedia article just now, and it omits these details.  Anyway, my point is, you might consider adding an "in the literature" section to call out to this.  Maybe someone with more recent knowledge of the book can shore up my description.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.255.18.130 (talk) 11:18, 3 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literature 

message: Lithium7, Deuterium, and Tritium participate in (n,2n) neutron doubling reactions. Deuterium splits circa 2MeV into proton and neutron. Beryllium9 generates neutrons from high MeV alpha emission in Polonium210/Beryllium neutron sources. 
Nazi Germany sought to enhance natural Uranium by adding “light metals” to increase Uranium neutron flux. Shjacks45 (talk) 00:03, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fusion? Not.