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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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"
They loved idea of infinite cylinder of fuel, unlimited bomb yield, from heating alone. Different than a compression-based approach.
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That was my guess too, but reading this interview with Carson Mark it seems that it was a deliberate choice, for the first TN at least.pic.twitter.com/PVferylzv4
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Sure. But Teller also made it clear that they already thought cylinder geometry was easy, "natural" to their thinking at that point.
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