Originally posted by Rubel
I'm sorry, but it's plain that you don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about. Using as crude and outdated technologies as a fission charge to trigger a fusion explosion may have been the only possible way when these weapons were first introduced almost 30 thousand years ago, but the technological development since then has left us with a vast amount of non-radioactive options for producing energy in sufficient quantity to trigger a fusion explosion.
The most commonly known energy source for such a trigger would be anti-matter, but there are other alternatives as well. And rest assured that there would be no radioactive fallout after a fusion explosion triggered by such an alternate source of energy.
(( Please take the technological backstory and source material of AO into consideration before making absolute IC statements about how something *has to* work a certain way, based purely on knowledge of contemporary technologies. ))
((OOC same to you. and read the above posts. He said, in the first post, a THERMONUCLEAR DEVICE. Antimatter isn't a nuclear fuel. It's antimatter fuel. Not to mention that antimatter is waay more energetic when combined with regular matter, which this world is made of. Current (talking nowadays) theory's state that you can use antimatter to fuel a starship, but the engine exaust would vaporize the Earth. And don't be an ass when posting OOC. ))