Some processes cannot be miniaturized. This is one of them.
They can make a dirty bomb small, but a fission or fusion device is still going to be petty large.
I am open to your argument. Do you specialize in any form of physics or are a physics junkie :)
I love reading about Quantum physics.
Self replicating robots? I am pretty sure the horrors won’t be so simple, but why try to develop them when there are plenty of lethal bacteria and viruses than can dissolve human flesh? If someone weapon owed pfisteria, which literally eats your skin and can poison you severely, isn’t that bad?
I believe it is mostly about producing the right ratio of materials to either compress to create the explosion or to build a shotgun type device. The actual physical parts are probably beyond for a few years, but building a 5-8 pound nuclear device is probably possible.
No, I am not a nuclear physicist, just a guy who reads a lot of stuff. Most of it way beyond me...lol
It is utter bullshit. Livermore lab has failed to demonstrate fusion with it’s 4.5 billion dollar laser. It’s in a building the size of two football fields and 6 stories high. The power from the fusion, if it worked would have been less than a glazed donut.
You can’t even make a dirty bomb small since they is just nuclear waste, and the size of the exclusion zone is set by that amount of waste. Fukujima tells you the scale that is required. The expended core of a power reactor.