Chapter 80: The Dragon Who Drinks Uranium (2)
The Teller-Ulam design.
It was the simplest model for making a hydrogen bomb.
A design that created an explosion by triggering a nuclear fusion reaction using the atomic bomb as a catalyst. It was standard yet the simplest method.
The hydrogen bomb I’d originally planned to make was via the method utilizing laser-plasma energy. There was no way it could be done with modern scientific technology alone so I had wanted to use Flare’s magic to develop it, which was also why I’d brought the tokamak.
“So? What is it?”
I couldn’t tell this to Lotte; it was difficult to explain, even. There simply wasn’t the time to explain the concept of nuclear physics in detail to this girl who asked persistently until she completely understood everything.
“I’ll tell you later.”
But I was going to have to do it someday. Just then, the carriage that had been smoothly running stopped.
It wasn’t a problem with the carriage. Freyr and I stuck our heads out the window to see what happened.
The road was cut off; it was a walk from this point.
“Huup.”