From: u502sou@bnhb484.de   
      
   Lynn McGuire wrote:   
      
   > I am horribly wondering if the tritium in Russia's ICBMs is still good.   
   > Russia has not tested a nuclear weapon since 1990.  I would very much   
   > not like seeing them testing a few of them on Berlin.   
      
   I assume they don't have any.   
      
   IIRC, the USA spent some effort to get handling of liquid deuterium   
   and tritium right and first built a bomb using that, but the necessary   
   cooling makes that impractical if you intend to transport it to some   
   other place.   
      
   The USSR skipped that effort and directly developed a bomb based   
   on the LiD concept (bomb uses Lithium hydride, where H is replaced   
   by deuterium; Li reacts with neutrons from the (fission bomb)   
   starter and then from the fusion, creating more tritium, beating   
   the USA to it by a few months (the only device they had first).   
      
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