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To: No Blue States
Yeah i thought the HEU was the good stuff, not for dirty bombs. 37 lbs?! How much was in the Hiroshima bomb?

"The IAEA defines a "significant quantity" (SQ) of HEU, the amount needed to make a nuclear bomb, as 25 kilograms." Source

25 kg = 55.115 pounds. Almost.

17 posted on 12/23/2003 6:13:08 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Thanks for the link. Notice the line above that?

"One press report cited unnamed "American government officials" as stating that "about 44 pounds (20 kilograms) of highly enriched uranium are needed to make a bomb ..."

22 posted on 12/23/2003 6:16:26 PM PST by No Blue States
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