[Prime Choice]

Put them together either too fast or too slow and you'll just get a fizzle, not a BOOM.

As an aside, which would you find more unnerving: a detonated nuclear bomb...or a dud? If the former, would you volunteer to defuse the latter?

This question was posed to me once, years ago. I'd be interested in your answer.

[Southack]

"As an aside, which would you find more unnerving: a detonated nuclear bomb...or a dud? If the former, would you volunteer to defuse the latter?"

A fizzle would *not* unnerve me. I fully expect to see a terrorist get a fizzle in my lifetime.

Yes, I have no problem volunteering to remove/de-fuse/demil whatever is left of a fizzle. Better me than someone younger, though I would insist upon the appropriate payback being delivered on my behalf. And depending upon how hot the fizzle, I might still be around to deliver some of that aforementioned payback.

[mikegi]

As an aside, which would you find more unnerving: a detonated nuclear bomb...or a dud? If the former, would you volunteer to defuse the latter? This question was posed to me once, years ago. I'd be interested in your answer.

Barging in here. Me? Hell, I'm afraid to go near a dud firecracker!