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Implosion nukes are really, really picky about how they have to be squeezed to work. Do you remember the movie "Peacemaker" starring George Clooney? At the climax, the nuke is in a city somewhere (been like 25 years since I watched it) and Clooney's character pries one of the explosive charges out of the "soccer ball". Then he and the love interest run like hell to get clear of the blast area. No nuclear boom, but one hell of a mess with plutonium dust everywhere. That's really how it'd work.All it'd take to anti-tamper a nuke is to fire one charge in the lens out of time. even if the other charges detonated sympathetically, the implosion wouldn't be even and at best/worst it'd fizzle for a small % of the rated yield. The most likely result would be no fission at all and dust and fragments of the satellite everywhere.1950s fuze, not modern PALs. Remember, the US gave the Russians PAL tech because it makes the "Rogue Officer Causing Nuclear Launch" basically impossible. And not just the assembled Permissive Action Links, but the full technical data package so they'd understand how the things work.IIRC it's also been offered to the UK, China, India, Pakistan, and France. All the nuclear countries.
Implosion nukes are really, really picky about how they have to be squeezed to work. Do you remember the movie "Peacemaker" starring George Clooney? At the climax, the nuke is in a city somewhere (been like 25 years since I watched it) and Clooney's character pries one of the explosive charges out of the "soccer ball". Then he and the love interest run like hell to get clear of the blast area. No nuclear boom, but one hell of a mess with plutonium dust everywhere. That's really how it'd work.
All it'd take to anti-tamper a nuke is to fire one charge in the lens out of time. even if the other charges detonated sympathetically, the implosion wouldn't be even and at best/worst it'd fizzle for a small % of the rated yield. The most likely result would be no fission at all and dust and fragments of the satellite everywhere.
1950s fuze, not modern PALs. Remember, the US gave the Russians PAL tech because it makes the "Rogue Officer Causing Nuclear Launch" basically impossible. And not just the assembled Permissive Action Links, but the full technical data package so they'd understand how the things work.
IIRC it's also been offered to the UK, China, India, Pakistan, and France. All the nuclear countries.
