The Infamous Teller-Ulam Report 1951 Restricted Data
Table Of Content Biographical Memoirs: Volume 90 Basic Principles of Staged Radiation Implosion The United States Developments Responses to “The Infamous Teller-Ulam Report ( ” For the next decade, Teller would commit a significant amount of his time to the effort of trying to figure out how you could make such a thing actually work. Just prior to the conference, on May 8 at Enewetak atoll in the western Pacific, a test explosion named George had successfully used a fission bomb to ignite a small quantity of deuterium and tritium. It was immediately clear to all scientists concerned that these new ideas—achieving a high density in the thermonuclear fuel by compression using a fission primary—provided for the first time a firm basis for a fusion weapon. Biographical Memoirs: Volume 90 The huge energy released by fission was used for compression and ignition of fusion fuel. Simply put, the fission explosion created a shock wave that compressed fusion fuel inside the fission envel...