implosion weapon
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implosion weapon
[im′plō·zhən ‚wep·ən] (ordnance)
A nuclear weapon in which a quantity of fissionable material, less than a critical mass in its untriggered configuration, has its volume suddenly reduced by compression with ordinary explosives, so that it becomes supercritical and a nuclear explosion can occur.
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