One-point safe criterion/Definition

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A definition or brief description of One-point safe criterion.

A design goal for nuclear weapons, to ensure that a single built-in detonator firing, or an external explosive charge fired next to the weapon, could not result in a nuclear yield greater than two kilograms TNT equivalent