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Your description also leaves out the strictly optional, but common 3rd stage of a thermonuclear device: the thick Uranium blanket surrounding the entire assembly. Even "depleted" U-238 will undergo fast neutron fission, which the deuterium / tritium fusion reaction produces in extreme abundance. In most TN weapons, most of the explosive yield results from fission of the Uranium blanket, not the fusion reaction. In a "neutron bomb", or "enhanced radiation warhead", neutrons are the desired product rather than explosive yield, so these typically omit the U casing.

Richard Rhodes' "Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb" provides an excellent description and paper bibliography.




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