I broke this out as a separate topic. There had been ruminating and bloviating—most, if not all of it, my own—about the U.S. B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb in another currently active forum topic. That was already kind of a stretch for that discussion, which started with a focus on the Russian nuclear arsenal.

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I guess it's Classified. (Duh!) I did a quick search to try to understand how it works, and this is the one description I came up with. I don't know anything about this Carey Sublette, but he writes as if he knows what he's talking about.

I can't say I understand it. It's like a Rube Goldberg machine. I had imagined it being smaller and more straightforward to describe. If this Carey "Sublette the apartment" has it right.
https://www.quora.com/The-B...ally-and-technically

This is a "top shelf" diagram of the B61-12 internals and exterior control panel.
https://laststandonzombieis...s/nato-nuclear-bomb/

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 03-28-2022).]

quote Originally posted by rinselberg: I guess it's Classified. (Duh!) I did a quick search to try to understand how it works...

Look out the window. See those guys in the black Suburban? The one with the little antennas on top? Wave at them.

the amount of water in it [edit or gas the new one use H gas]

water H2O is an eazy way to store H to heat up and form He

first one needs an atom bomb that splits Plutonium-239 aka undergoes fission
and triggers a fusion reaction in the H by compression of the core of the H-bomb by the A-bomb
do it right the a-bomb outside compresses center core H-bomb

the amount of water [or gas] in the center varys the yield more water = more H = more BANG

NOW THERE IS A LOT MORE TO IT REFLECTING NEUTRONS H IS NOT COMMON HYDROGEN
THERE IS A BIT OF Li IN THE HEAVY WATER
BUT LETS KEEP THE STORY SIMPLE

MORE WATER [or gas] MORE BANG

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"It's the WATER!"

[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 03-28-2022).]