Re: Shoulder launched nukes?

At 04:27 PM 9/25/99 EDT, you wrote:
>sophisticated	electronic triggers for the conventional explosive.
Usually a 
>diffuse ball of nuclear material is made and then surrounded by
explosives 
>that will detonate a spherical trigger which implodes (slams toegether
into a 
>much more dense mass which results in the uncontrolled reaction. All
that 
>takes weight (mass).

Ahh... unless the fissionable material is embedded on the inside of a
shell
of memory plastic. Given a trigger signal, the memory plastic
contracts...
bringing the fissionables into contact at high speed. Memory plastic
(which, of course, blocks radiation) and the control circuit couldn't
weigh
too much...