[endthematrix]

Actually the explosives used to detonate Saddam's bomb was difficult to produce (into a nuclear detonator)

The explosive is press formed, molded or machined into a lens shape to be used cylindrically around the round implosion device. It's just not packing explosives next to uranium, but much more complicated than that.

[DB]

In terms of making a nuke the RDX in powder form was not the difficult material to acquire and does not represent some great forward step towards that goal.

[nw_arizona_granny]

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