Re: Shoulder launched nukes?

Jim 'Jiji' Foster wrote:

> 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...

I don't know if I like the idea of the memory plastic.	If you block the
radiation, whatever you have will heat up...

IAS