What are the materials needed to make a nuclear weapons?

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2026-06-08 11:16

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At a minimum:

  • Fissile material to provide the energy
  • Conventional explosives to rapidly assemble (about 1ms to 10ms) the fissile material from subcritical to supercritical form
  • A tamper made of dense metal to contain the reaction for about 1µs to get good yield
  • neutron sources to start the fission at optimal supercriticality

To make a practical bomb additional materials and systems would be required.

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