Sentence examples for fission weapon from inspiring English sources

Take a fission weapon — call it the primary.

Bethe would later deride it as nothing more than "a big boosted fission weapon".

The BBC showed a paragraph that described the implosion principle by which a nuclear fission weapon is triggered.

Fermi wondered if the explosion of a fission weapon could ignite a mass of deuterium sufficiently to begin nuclear fusion.

The Bush Administration has not assigned the same urgency to the dirty-bomb threat that it has to the threat of a terrorist attack using a fission weapon.

As for the fission weapon itself, it was a rather distant goal, and practically nothing but "back-of-the-envelope" studies were done on it.

Fission weapons are commonly referred to as atomic bombs.

Such material could be used in fission weapons capable of destroying entire cities.

Among other things, the international nuclear black market holds more promise for dirty-bomb builders than for those who are interested in fission weapons.

The first pathway to proliferation, uranium enrichment, can lead to a nuclear weapon based on highly enriched uranium (see nuclear weapon: Principles of atomic (fission) weapons).

In order to make an explosion, fission weapons do not require uranium or plutonium that is pure in the isotopes uranium-235 and plutonium-239.