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   Christian Weisgerber to Ignatios Souvatzis   
   Re: (ReacTor) Side-Eyeing Science Fictio   
   21 Jan 26 17:34:55   
   
   From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2026-01-21, Ignatios Souvatzis  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,   
      
   No, no, the search term you are looking for is a "tritium-boosted"   
   device.   
      
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