Contents -- Preface -- Overview -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Bibliography for Chapter 1 -- 2 Nuclear Fission and Fusion Reactions -- 2.1 Nuclear Binding Energies -- 2.2 Nuclear Reactions -- 2.3 Fission Chain Reactions -- 2.4 Thermonuclear Reactions -- 2.5 Fusion Chain Reactions -- 2.6 Fission-Fusion Chain Reactions -- 2.7 Bibliography for Chapter 2 -- 3 The Thermonuclear Plasma -- 3.1 Ionization Temperature -- 3.2 Plasma Equation of State -- 3.3 Microscopic Plasma Theory -- 3.4 Debye-Length -- 3.5 Macroscopic Plasma Theory -- 3.6 Magnetohydrodynamics of Thermonuclear Plasmas -- 3.7 Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Plasma Disturbances -- 3.8 Magnetohydrodynamic Instabilities -- 3.9 Radiation Pressure -- 3.10 Equation of State for ColdMatter -- 3.11 Bibliography for Chapter 3 -- 4 Collision Processes in Thermonuclear Plasmas -- 4.1 Collision Cross Sections and Mean Free Path -- 4.2 Electrical Conductivity -- 4.3 Heat Conduction -- 4.4 Viscosity -- 4.5 Energy Gain of Cold Ions by Hot Electrons -- 4.6 Energy Loss of Hot Ions by Cold Electrons -- 4.7 Transport Coefficients in the Presence of a Strong Magnetic Field -- 4.8 Collective Collision - The Two-Stream Instability -- 4.9 Plasma Radiation -- 4.10 Radiative Plasma Cooling and Collapse -- 4.11 Stopping Cross Section of Ions in ColdMatter -- 4.12 Magnetic Bremsstrahlung -- 4.13 Radiation Losses Near a Wall -- 4.14 Integrated Heat Conduction Losses of a Magnetized Plasma Cylinder -- 4.15 Electron Run-Away -- 4.16 Bibliography for Chapter 4 -- 5 Shock and Compression Waves -- 5.1 ShockWaves -- 5.2 Von Neumann Artificial Viscosity -- 5.3 Convergent Shock Waves -- 5.4 Isentropic Compression Waves -- 5.5 Implosion of Compressible Shells -- 5.6 Multishell Implosions -- 5.7 Rayleigh-Taylor Instability -- 5.8 Conical Implosion -- 5.9 Bibliography for Chapter 5.

6 Thermonuclear Ignition and Burn -- 6.1 Ignition of Thermonuclear Reactions -- 6.2 Ignition Temperature for Black Body Radiation Losses -- 6.3 Ignition Temperature for Optically Thin Plasmas -- 6.4 Ignition Temperature of Small Thermonuclear Assemblies -- 6.5 Ignition in the Presence of a Strong Magnetic Field -- 6.6 Self-Heating Following Ignition -- 6.7 Thermonuclear DetonationWaves -- 6.8 Growing Thermonuclear DetonationWave -- 6.9 Ignition and Thermonuclear Gain for Spherical Assemblies -- 6.10 Various Methods to Achieve Ignition -- 6.11 Autocatalytic Fission-Fusion Implosions -- 6.12 Bibliography for Chapter 6 -- 7 Ignition by Fission Explosives -- 7.1 Temperature and Radiation Flux of a Fission Explosion -- 7.2 The Ignition Problem -- 7.3 The Thermonuclear Booster Concept -- 7.4 The Polyhedron Con.guration -- 7.5 The Teller-Ulam Con.guration -- 7.6 Ignition and Burn in the Teller-Ulam Configuration -- 7.7 Nuclear "Spark Plugs" -- 7.8 Fission-Fusion-Fission Bombs -- 7.9 Staging of Thermonuclear Explosions -- 7.10 Autocatalytic Thermonuclear Detonation -- 7.11 Magnetized Thermonuclear Explosive Devices -- 7.12 Miniaturized Thermonuclear Explosive Devices -- 7.13 Thermonuclear Explosion Driven X-Ray Lasers -- 7.14 Mini Fission-Fusion Explosive Devices -- 7.15 Bibliography for Chapter 7 -- 8 Non-Fission Ignition -- 8.1 Energy Storage for Non-Fission Ignition -- 8.2 Electric Pulse Power -- 1. Capacitive Marx generator -- 2. Levitated magnetically insulated Gigavolt capacitor -- 3. Inductive Marx generator -- 4. Homopolar .ywheel generator -- 8.3 Intense Electron and Ion Beams -- 8.4 Child-Langmuir Law -- 8.5 Magnetic Insulation -- 8.6 Ignition with Intense Particle Beams -- 8.7 Laser Drivers -- 8.8 Relativistic Electron Beam Drivers -- 8.9 Ion Beam Drivers -- 8.10 Microparticle Beam Drivers -- 8.11 Magnetic Traveling Wave Macroparticle Accelerator.

8.12 Magnetic Acceleration of Magnetically Con.ned Dense Matter -- 8.13 Multiple Wire Implosions -- 8.14 Some General Comments on Pulse Power Compression -- 8.15 TheMagnetic Booster Impact Fusion Concept -- 8.16 Laser Ignition of the Dense Z-Pinch -- 8.17 Laser Ignition of an Isentropically Compressed Dense Z-Pinch -- 8.18 Laser Cutting the Dense Z-Pinch and Inductive Energy Storage -- 8.19 Ignition of a Thermonuclear Detonation Wave in the Focus of Two Concentric Magnetically Insulated Transmission Lines -- 8.20 Chemical Ignition -- 8.21 The Goal Towards Low-Yield High-Gain Thermonuclear Explosive Devices -- 8.22 Bibliography for Chapter 8 . -- 9 Thermonuclear Lenses and Shaped Charges -- 9.1 Thermonuclear Lenses -- 9.2 Thermonuclear Shaped Charges -- 9.3 Some Applications of Thermonuclear Lenses and Shaped Charges -- 9.4 Bibliography for Chapter 9 -- 10 The Signi.cance of Thermonuclear Microexplosions for Fundamental Research -- 10.1 Synopsis -- 10.2 Thermonuclear Microexplosion Reactors -- 10.3 Thermonuclear Microexplosion Rocket Propulsion -- 10.4 Interstellar Rocket Propulsion -- 10.5 Thermonuclear Microexplosion-Driven Particle Accelerators -- 10.6 Thermonuclear Microexplosion Driven Space Launcher -- 10.7 Bibliography for Chapter 10 -- 11 Recent Developments -- 11.1 Chirped Laser Pulse Ampli.cation -- 11.2 Convergent Shock Wave Driven Megajoule - Petawatt Laser -- 11.3 Impact Ignition -- 11.4 Thermonuclear Microdetonation Macron Accelerator for Impact Ignition -- 11.5 Fast Ignition with Two Lasers -- 11.6 Conjectured Metastable Super-Explosives Formed under High Pressure for Thermonuclear Ignition -- 11.7 Artificial Lightning as a Potent Inertial Confinement Fusion Driver -- 11.8 Bibliography for Chapter 11 -- 12 The Future -- 12.1 What Kind of Burn -- 12.2 Driver Development -- 12.3 GeV Intense Relativistic Ion Beam Drivers.

A Comparison of the Recently Proposed Super Marx Generator Approach to Thermonuclear Ignition with the DT Laser Fusion-Fission Hybrid Concept by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- A.1 Introduction -- A.2 Solution in between Two Extremes -- A.3 From the Marx to the Super Marx -- A.4 Connecting the Super Marx to the Load -- A.5 Thermonuclear Ignition and Burn -- A.6 Conversion of the Explosively Released Energy -- A.7 Other Possibilities -- A.8 Discussion -- A.9 Bibliography for the Appendix -- About the Author -- Index.