/sci/ - Science & Math

>Conventional explosives detonate and compress a plutonium sphere.
>The fission of plutonium produces hard x-rays which ablate a tamper.
>Tamper expands and compresses the lithium-deuteride fuel and fissile sparkplug.
>Sparkplug fissions and releases neutrons into the lithium-deuteride which breeds tritium.
>Deuterium-tritium fusion reactions occur leading to a fusion gain of 3200%.
>Subsequent fusion stages could be ignited, allowing for an arbitrarily large yield (still debated).
>All occurring in under a millionth of a second.

Thermonuclear bombs are so fucking cool, it's a shame that most of the information is still classified.