It was 'only' 57 megatons without the tertiary DU stage.
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It would have been easily over 100 MT with it. In US designs, the tertiary DU stage has increased yield by a factor of 3, BTW, the Soviets were only claiming their device would double in strength with DU.
The very largest hydrogen fusion bombs require literally tons of DU to function. Curiously, the widely reviled and castigated neutron bomb of the early 1980s is essentially a 'small' fusion bomb, without a DU tertiary stage. The idea being the copious neutrons emitted are utilized to kill people (and leave material objects relatively less damaged) instead of triggering fission in a DU 'blanket' around the device to multiply the yield.
How much DU ordinance would it take to equal the carnage from a 50-100 MT detonation as envisioned in this map ??
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It would have been easily over 100 MT with it. In US designs, the tertiary DU stage has increased yield by a factor of 3, BTW, the Soviets were only claiming their device would double in strength with DU.
The very largest hydrogen fusion bombs require literally tons of DU to function. Curiously, the widely reviled and castigated neutron bomb of the early 1980s is essentially a 'small' fusion bomb, without a DU tertiary stage. The idea being the copious neutrons emitted are utilized to kill people (and leave material objects relatively less damaged) instead of triggering fission in a DU 'blanket' around the device to multiply the yield.
How much DU ordinance would it take to equal the carnage from a 50-100 MT detonation as envisioned in this map ??
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