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	ENGINEERING EVENT
		While the aforementioned fission-fusion-fission bomb and the neutron bomb are technically both fusion bombs that employ small fission bombs within, for the sake of clarity I will refer to the former as a hydrogen or standard fusion bomb without including the latter in that classification.
		The largest challenge was that a significant amount of atomic fusion requires enormous amounts of energy, on an order of magnitude with a small fission warhead, to begin the reaction.
		Unfortunately for said soldiers, the bomb is also a monumental failure of the weapons engineers to follow the moral and ethical guidelines that keep society from being overrun with extraordinarily dangerous weapons in day-to-day activities and events.
	www.pitt.edu /~cjb21/event.html (3168 words)

	Nuclear weapon - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
		Nuclear weapons are often described as either fission or fusion devices based on the dominant source of the weapon's energy.
		Nuclear weapons are relatively inefficient in their use of fissionable material, and much of the uranium and plutonium is dispersed by the explosion without undergoing fission.
		This form of radioactive contamination is known as nuclear fallout and poses the primary risk of exposure to ionizing radiation for a large nuclear weapon.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /nuclear_weapon.htm (5050 words)

	Nuclear Physics
		Splitting large atoms into smaller ones or 'fusing' small ones to create larger ones, releases energy - this is what happens inside nuclear reactors and atom bombs (fission) and inside hydrogen bombs and the sun (fusion).
		noun: nuclear physics, atomic physics, nucleonics = the branch of physics that studies the internal structure of atomic nuclei.
		American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J...
	kosmoi.com /Science/Physics/Nuclear (1378 words)

	UFA Workshop on Burning Plasma Science
		Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE) a paper presented at the 42nd meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics combined with the 10th International Congress on Plasma Physics, Quebec City, Canada, October 25, 2000 (1.1 MB, pdf).
		Physics Basis for the Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE) (170 kB, pdf) a paper by the FIRE Team presented at the European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion June 15, 2000 in Budapest, Hungary.
		Mission and Design of the Fusion Ignition Research Experiment (FIRE) preprint of a paper submitted to the 18th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Sorrento, Italy, October 4-10, 2000 (370 kB, pdf).
	fire.pppl.gov /ufa_bp_wkshp.html (3353 words)

	Nuclear Engineering
		A primary research direction within the department is support of the continued role of nuclear power in meeting society's energy needs through currently used light-water fission reactors and through development of both fast breeder reactors and fusion reactors for future applications.
		Research in the Department of Nuclear Engineering is broadly based, including the traditional areas of fission and fusion as well as innovative new areas in support of fundamental nuclear engineering and related nuclear processes and their applications.
		The security and economic implications of enhanced nuclear safeguards and more stringent controls on holdings of nuclear explosives in general are also being investigated.
	www.engr.uiuc.edu /communications/engineering_research/1998/nu.html (7427 words)

	SpaceBattles.com - USAF pondering antimatter weaponry and engines.
		The difference between a fusion or fission reaction vs antimatter is that antimatter is/can be 100% efficient in its conversion whereas fusion/fission are significantly less so - a Proton-Proton chain (4H -> He + E) is less than 1% efficient.
		Another possibility is antimatter- powered "electromagnetic pulse" weapons that could fry an enemy's electric power grid and communications networks, leaving him literally in the dark and unable to operate his society and armed forces.
		Antimatter is the most energy-dense fuel known to man, and as such, is the perfect energy source for deep-space vehicles.
	kier.3dfrontier.com /forums/archive/index.php/t-71844.html (7427 words)

	The New Atlantis - A Journal of Technology and Society
		While most of the other scientists involved in fission research during the war came to advocate strict limits on atomic weapons, Teller believed that the United States should undertake an intensive program to create a fusion bomb, a device far more powerful than the original fission bombs used on Japan.
		Teller actually began concentrating on the problems of missile defense as early as 1961, and it was he who first introduced then-Governor Ronald Reagan to the concept in 1967 when Teller was at the Livermore labs.
		Teller was falsely accused of wanting to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam; his house was vandalized; he couldn’t give public lectures without getting shouted down; several radical groups accused Teller of “war crimes,” tried him in absentia, marched on his home, and burned him in effigy.
	www.thenewatlantis.com /archive/3/soa/teller.htm (943 words)

	MIT OpenCourseWare Nuclear Science and Engineering
		The Department's programs are at the forefront of nuclear science and technology leading to improved performance of fission-powered reactors, the technological applications of nuclear and radiation phenomena in biomedical, industrial, and environmental fields, and the development of nuclear fusion as an energy source.
		Yet, today nuclear technology is a major contributor to the vitality and health of society with its widespread use for electricity generation and industrial and medical diagnostics, and as an indispensable tool for scientific research in fields ranging from pharmaceuticals to environmental studies.
		The Department defines its education and research mission broadly as the study of nuclear, molecular, and radiation interactions and their applications to problems of beneficial interest to society.
	ocw.mit.edu /OcwWeb/Nuclear-Engineering (316 words)

	Species Profiles — OBIS-SEAMAP
		The bottlenose dolphin social relationships in a fission-fusion society.
		Bottlenose dolphins are found primarily in coastal and continental shelf waters of tropical and temperate regions.
		The bottlenose dolphin is probably the most familiar of the small cetaceans because of its coastal habits, widespread captivity in zoos and aquaria, and frequent appearance in the media.
	seamap.env.duke.edu /species/tsn/180426 (1808 words)

	MIT OpenCourseWare Nuclear Science and Engineering
		The Department's programs are at the forefront of nuclear science and technology leading to improved performance of fission-powered reactors, the technological applications of nuclear and radiation phenomena in biomedical, industrial, and environmental fields, and the development of nuclear fusion as an energy source.
		Yet, today nuclear technology is a major contributor to the vitality and health of society with its widespread use for electricity generation and industrial and medical diagnostics, and as an indispensable tool for scientific research in fields ranging from pharmaceuticals to environmental studies.
		Established in 1958, the Department of Nuclear Engineering is one of the first nuclear engineering programs in the United States.
	ocw.mit.edu /OcwWeb/Nuclear-Engineering (324 words)

	Stanislaw M. Ulam Papers, American Philosophical Society
		His key insight into the development of the fusion bomb may have been the recognition that compression of the nuclear material was necessary to produce an explosion, and that mechanical shock waves generated by a fission bomb could produce the force necessary.
		Stanislaw Ulam was gifted mathematician who, during the course of his career, made significant contributions to set theory, topology, ergodic theory, probability, cellular automata theory, the study of nonlinear processes, the function of real variables, mathematical logic, and number theory.
		Ulam's work at LASL constitutes another area of surprising weakness: in some cases, the name of a correspondent associated with the laboratory suggests that valuable technical information on the development of nuclear weapons is available in their file.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/u/ulam.htm (4916 words)

	Primate Behavior: Social Structure
		A fission-fusion society is one in which the social group size and composition changes throughout the year with different activities and situations.
		Young female monkeys and apes are more often socialized in the safer areas of the community territory by their mothers and other older female relatives.
		The strongest social unit is a mother and her young children.
	anthro.palomar.edu /behavior/behave_2.htm (1951 words)

	The world's top fusion rocket websites
		Fusion-based bombs could (and almost certainly would) be used in an Orion design, improving efficiency substantially while a pellet based inertial fusion approach has been extensively studied by the British Interplanetary Society during their "Daedalus" interstellar probe design study in the 1970s.
		Antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion would use tiny quantities of antimatter to catalyze a fission and fusion reaction, allowing much smaller fusion explosions to be created.
		A small pellet of fusion fuel (with a diameter of a couple of millimeters) would be ignited by an electron beam, a laser or even a tiny amount of antimatter.
	dirs.org /wiki-article-tab.cfm/fusion_rocket (607 words)

	Fogler Library Resources by Subject: Electrical and Computer Engineering
		Many aspects of electrical engineering and applied physics are covered including fission and fusion.
		American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Recent conference proceedings are available at the Frontiers in Education Clearing House.
		This is a database of preprints in computer science.
	www.library.umaine.edu /science/eleceng.htm (3165 words)

	Stanislaw M. Ulam Papers, American Philosophical Society
		His key insight into the development of the fusion bomb may have been the recognition that compression of the nuclear material was necessary to produce an explosion, and that mechanical shock waves generated by a fission bomb could produce the force necessary.
		Stanislaw Ulam was gifted mathematician who, during the course of his career, made significant contributions to set theory, topology, ergodic theory, probability, cellular automata theory, the study of nonlinear processes, the function of real variables, mathematical logic, and number theory.
		Ulam's work at LASL constitutes another area of surprising weakness: in some cases, the name of a correspondent associated with the laboratory suggests that valuable technical information on the development of nuclear weapons is available in their file.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/u/ulam.htm (4916 words)

	Stanislaw M. Ulam Papers, American Philosophical Society
		His key insight into the development of the fusion bomb may have been the recognition that compression of the nuclear material was necessary to produce an explosion, and that mechanical shock waves generated by a fission bomb could produce the force necessary.
		Ulam was honored with such awards as the Sierpinski Medal, the Polish Millennium Prize, and the Polish American Congress Heritage Award, and was named the John von Neumann Lecturer of the Society of Applied and Industrial Mathematics.
		Ulam's work at LASL constitutes another area of surprising weakness: in some cases, the name of a correspondent associated with the laboratory suggests that valuable technical information on the development of nuclear weapons is available in their file.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/u/ulam.htm (4916 words)

	Nuclear Weapons Responsibility: A presentation by Ted Taylor
		Ted Taylor: This is without using a fission bomb at all.
		Fusion is the fusing together, the coming together of light elements - hydrogen, in particular - in a nuclear reaction, not just burning hydrogen, which is wonderful.
		Presentation by Theodore B. Taylor, PhD, 20 April 1998, at Mickleton Monthly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
	www.sondra.net /concerns/ttspeech.htm (8500 words)

	Common Chimpanzee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The common chimpanzee lives in a fission-fusion society, and may be found in groups of the following types: all-male, adult females and offspring, bisexual, one female and her offspring, or a single individual.
		Common Chimpanzees are found in the tropical forests and wet savannas of Western and Central Africa.
		Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, Eastern Common or Long-haired Chimpanzee, in the Central African Republic, the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ruanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Zambia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Chimpanzee (8500 words)

	Common Chimpanzee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Common Chimpanzee lives in a fission-fusion society, where mating is promiscuous and may be found in groups of the following types: all-male, adult females and offspring, bisexual, one female and her offspring, or a single individual.
		Common Chimpanzees are found in the tropical forests and wet savannas of Western and Central Africa.
		Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, Eastern Common or Long-haired Chimpanzee, in the Central African Republic, the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ruanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Zambia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pan_troglodytes (1006 words)

	primates.com : great apes : common chimpanzee : Pan troglodytes
		The common chimpanzee has a fission-fusion society, and the groups at any one time could be of the following types: all-male, adult females and offspring, bisexual, one female and her offspring, and single individual.
		The common chimpanzee is a capable hunter, usually the males form bands to hunt.
		The eastern common chimpanzee is found in the countries of Burundi, Central African Republic, Rwanda, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire.
	www.primates.com /chimps/chimpanzee-info.html (3697 words)

	Common Chimpanzee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Common Chimpanzee lives in a fission-fusion society, where mating is promiscuous and may be found in groups of the following types: all-male, adult females and offspring, bisexual, one female and her offspring, or a single individual.
		Eastern Chimpanzee, Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii, in the Central African Republic, the Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, and Zambia.
		Common Chimpanzees are found in the tropical forests and wet savannas of Western and Central Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Common_Chimpanzee (1014 words)

	The Predatory Behavior and Ecology of Wild Chimpanzees
		Chimpanzee society is called fission-fusion, to indicate that there is little cohesive group structure apart from mothers and their infants; instead, temporary subgroupings called parties come together and separate throughout the day.
		To learn whether chimpanzee predation has the potential to be a limiting factor in the size of the colobus population at Gombe, I compared the intensity of hunting by chimpanzees with the size of red colobus groups in each of the valleys of the chimpanzeesÕ hunting range.
		The chimpanzees' superb climbing ability is not essential for hunting monkeys either; once the prey is cornered in an isolated tree crown, group cooperation at driving the monkeys from one hunter to another would have been a quite efficient killing technique.
	www-rcf.usc.edu /~stanford/chimphunt.html (4058 words)

	Bonobo-in-Situ (Field site Iyema)., Royal Zoological Society Antwerp
		Socio-ecology of the fission-fusion society of Pan paniscus.
		Bonobo-in-Situ (Field site Iyema)., Royal Zoological Society Antwerp
		Mailing address: Kon.Astridplein 26, B-2018 Antwerp, 2018 Dem.Rep.Congo.
	pin.primate.wisc.edu /idp/idp/entry/32 (4058 words)

	Hominid group selection
		However, the combination of fission/fusion organization (favoring coalition formation and relatively complex tactical behavior) with weapons (which in conjunction with group and/or ambush attacks greatly reduce the costs to actors of lethal inter- and intragroup aggression) create circumstances which may well have favored group selection in hominid evolution.
		Although the basic parameters leading to the evolution of "egalitarian" societies are general (Vehrencamp 1983), coalitions and weapons greatly increase the difficulty of achieving despotic power in non-state society.
		Happily, however, it does "re-introduce group selection to the human behavioral sciences" and this at least is worth serious consideration.
	weber.ucsd.edu /~jmoore/publications/WilSob.html (1270 words)

	Nuclear Power in Seaside: a WebQuest
		Nuclear Fusion Engineer who is working on an alternative solution to fission.
		Could it be possible that nuclear power could provide society with the solution to the energy crisis?
		The citizens of Seaside have been left with two choices: Vote to accept the power plant and all of its benefits or reject the proposal because of the negative aspects of living with the danger of a nuclear power plant in their backyard.
	powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us /projects/NUKEWEB (1052 words)

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