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In this scheme in 1951, a two-step charge was developed,

It's an activator and a container of thermonuclear fuel.

When the trigger detonates, most of the energy is released as a powerful X-ray pulse,

turning the shell of step two and the plastic filler into high-temperature plasma, under great pressure,

That's the one that's pressing the second step.

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