----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: Doing Business With The Enemy


> Could you explain what a "nuclear bomb trigger" consists of? Does this
> mean something like an electronic timer? A conventional explosive to
> cause an implosion? Something else? I'm just trying to understand how
> specialized these "triggers" were.

Sure.  It is a small, rugged pulsed neutron generator.  It generates about
10^8 neutrons per second, with energies of  14 Mev in very short (measured
in microseconds) bursts.

Dan M.


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