Editing Huemul Project (section)

==Prior to Huemul==
According to Rainer Karlsch's ''[[Hitler's Bomb]]'', during [[World War II]] German scientists under [[Walter Gerlach]] and [[Kurt Diebner]] carried out experiments to explore the possibility of inducing [[thermonuclear|thermonuclear reactions]] in [[deuterium]] using high explosive-driven convergent [[shock wave]]s, following Karl Gottfried Guderley's convergent shock wave solution. At the same time, Richter proposed in a memorandum to German government officials the induction of nuclear fusion through shock waves by high-velocity particles shot into a highly compressed deuterium [[plasma (physics)|plasma]] contained in an ordinary [[uranium]] vessel. The proposal was not carried through.<ref>{{cite book |first=Rainer |last=Karlsch |author-link=Rainer Karlsch |title=Hitler's Bomb |publisher=DVA |year=2005}}</ref>