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fission

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The first is that the weapon was some novel small experimental nuclear fission device or other experimental weapon (e.
There, technicians trained in handling nuclear materials would add the tritium or deuterium composites that turn a plain old fission bomb into a massive thermonuclear fusion bomb.
Biologists call it "binary fission," and judging from Phillip Zaiser's new exhibition, it's what he's experiencing.
 
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