How Pakistan’s Faulty Missiles Stopped a Nuclear War During Kargil

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Who feeds Wiki news? This particular one was from a Paki!

Through a weird quirk of physics, creating a small nuke is actually far much more difficult than creating a large nuke. With a large nuke, you could essentially just keep adding additional fusion stages until you have something like the Soviet Tsar Bomba, but a small nuke requires precise assembly and extremely difficult mathematics which the Pakis are not capable of!

No, you get the whole idea wrong. The main principle of miniaturized warhead is: providing LARGE YIELD with SMALL SIZE/WEIGHT. There is hardly any difficulty to build a relatively small warhead with small yields. Theoretically, 52 kg of uranium is enough for nuclear serial reaction. So, building a 400kg warhead with only 5k-10k ton yield is perfectly within any country's capability, which already tested her nuclear weapon.

It will be extremely difficult if you want to build 5-10 kt bomb under 20kg, that is the atomic trigger for h-bomb