NOrks go hydrogen

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Cybrludite
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Re: NOrks go hydrogen

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I've read that the yield was around 140kt. As I understand it, anything under half a megaton is more likely to be plain old nuclear fisson, not thermonuclear fusion. I'm guessing tritium boosting, rather than true fusion, or a "fizzled" (relatively speaking, no pun intended) fusion test.
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Re: NOrks go hydrogen

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So Lil' Kim has a few fission nukes, and may have a low yield fission-fusion device.

Yay for him.

Last time I checked, just one of our boomers still carried 8 W88 MIRVs( yield of 475KT) per Trident II missle, and an Ohio class boomer carries 24 Trident IIs.
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