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What we know about China’s new hypersonic weapon test

Byjamessthephen

Post Views: 1,268 In August, a Chinese rocket carried a projectile into space. That projectile, reported by US intelligence agencies as a missile and by China as a reusable space vehicle, fell into an orbit, circled the globe, and then glided into a spot about 24 miles away from its original target. The launch represents…

Why Los Alamos lab is working on the tricky task of creating new plutonium coreswe

Byammierai2609

Post Views: 1,231 Inside a nuclear warhead, a plutonium pit is crucial to setting off the sequence of reactions that make a thermonuclear explosion. Inside the pit is a gas, like deuterium/tritium, and around the pit is chemical explosive. When the chemical explosive detonates, it compacts the plutonium around the gas until the core is…