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Development of Nuclear Charges at RFNC-VNIITF (1963—1976) and Explosive Deuterium Energy

Authors: Boris Litvinov

The Chief Weapons Designer Boris V. Litvinov’s useful book, Selected Works, published by Russia’s 2nd nuclear weapons laboratory, the Russian Federal Nuclear Center RFNC-VNIITF in 2014, contains a chapter titled: Development of Nuclear Charges at RFNC-VNIITF (1963—1976) and Explosive Deuterium Energy. The primary focus is the development of nuclear charges at RFNC-VNIITF from 1963 to 1976, a pivotal period marked by the transition to underground testing and advancements in charge design, starting with the highly successful Project 49 double-primary device first tested on February 23, 1958, which its co-designer Yuri Trutnev has stated in openly published Russian news interviews, gave 2.4 times the yield/mass of the single-primary RDS37 design ...

Comments: 10 Pages. [Trabslated by Nigel B. Cook from] openly published Russian nuclear weapons history.

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