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RDS-37 (nuclear weapon): First Soviet true fusion device using a Teller-Ulam design rather than Layer Cake (nuclear weapon); 1.6 Mt yield at the 22 November 1955 test, reduced from the design yield [e]
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Parent topics
- Fusion device [r]: An explosive device, whether used as a weapon or for other purposes, which depends for most of its explosive power on the release of energy by combining atomic nuclei [e]
- Soviet nuclear weapons [r]: Nuclear weapon development by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation [e]
Subtopics
- Teller-Ulam design [r]: The principle that underlies all operational fusion devices, involving the channeling of radiation pressure from a Primary fission device to compress and heat lithium deuteride, which produces tritium, in a thermonuclear Secondary [e]
- Andrei Sakharov [r]: Add brief definition or description