[geeks] NSI must die!!!!

David Passmore dpassmor at sneakers.org
Fri Jun 14 14:34:05 CDT 2002


On Fri, Jun 14, 2002 at 12:15:59PM -0500, Eric Dittman wrote:

> The type of nuclear material needed depends on the type of
> weapon one wanted to make.  A dirty bomb is easy, fission
> bombs and above are increasingly more difficult.  Most
> likely the best one could do would be a low-yield fission
> bomb.

You'll need purified weapons-grade uranium. This isn't stuff you can make in
your garage. It takes some pretty hefty equipment (IE, entire factories) to
purify uranium. Plus, you have to be able to machine it, which is in and of
itself an extraordinarily dangerous activity. Once you actually /have/ that
though, the bomb itself is simple.

David



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