A laboratory for the H-bomb
In 1996, France signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) after having completed in 1995 a final and resounding nuclear test campaign in the Pacific. Now, France has to find other ways to guarantee the performance of its thermonuclear weapons. To maintain a convincing strike force, without resorting to other nuclear tests, France created an ambitious Simulation programme whose aim is to put in an equation the physical phenomena involved in the ignition of a thermonuclear weapon.
Photos et text ©Hubert Raguet/Lightmediation
