Basic thesis is that their "Sloika" design was less dumb, and less a "step in the wrong direction" than American commentators tend to think.
A new article by me and @sovietologist (Ed Geist) on the history of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, out in @PhysicsToday:http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3524#.WOS2INIJ92w.twitter …
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So they went directly to a spherical secondary?It would be interesting to know if the US route with cylinderical sec is the exception 1/2
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Iirc the U.K. Too went for a spherical secondary since the beginning 2/2
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Right. (We had some on this in an earlier draft but it was too long.) UK was a more Soviet-like route than a US-like route, in this model.
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Do we have any info on why US went with a cylindrical secondary? IIRC the use of a spherical one was considered a successive "breakthrough"
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Teller et al. had been working for decade on cylindrical geometry because of Classical Super --> http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/1946-Classical-Super-design.jpg …
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